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1910. Edison Crushing Roll Company (D-10-38)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
business of the Edison Crushing Roll Co., which licensed and installed
Edison's crushing rolls and collected royalties for their use. Included are
statements of expenses incurred and royalties due, as well as correspondence
regarding blueprints, patterns, licenses, and inspections.
A sample of approximately 10 percent of the documents has been
selected.
TKe Edison Portland Cement Co.
ih. Freight and Paaienger Station, NEW VILLAGE. N. J.
3. address. STEWARTSVILLE, N. J.
March 8, 1910.
Mr. H. E. Miller, Secy.,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
M 10 ;Ojn
Enclosed please find statement showing
expenses incurred by this Company account the Edison
Crushing Roll Co ./for the month of January, amount
being $1207.24.
We are also attaching herewith in dup¬
licate the following memorandums which you may render
against your respective licensees:
U. S. Crushed Stone Company
Tomkins Coven Stone Company
- Rational Limestone Co.
Yours very truly.
T' ~ r^pcn^ortlan^^^nt Co.,^
ENCLOSURE
P.S.
Mr. Mason requests that we
hold bill against the National
Limestone Co. up until we have
more charges to render against them
at some future time. E.S.B.W
[ENCLOSURE]
EXPENSES INCURRED BY EDISON PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY
ACCOUNT LIMESTONE ROLLS, MONTH OS’ JANUARY, 1910.
Aofit.
No,
1000 TOMKINS COVE CONTRACT (T.,
Jan. 15 Drafting
J. McFadden
J. V. Fry
K . B . Snyder
J. V. Fry
M. Ti. Snyder
J. V. Fry
M. B. Snyder
Jan. 31 J. V. Fry
M. B. Snyder
Drafting
V.. B. Snyder
J. V. Fry
J. McFadden
J. V. Fry
J. McFadden
E. S. Op dyke
L.E.)
9.10
Inspector 25.00
Expenses 1/4-3 14.60
" 12/15-31 15.65
1 1/11-12 2.56
11 1/1-15 19.17
Inspecting 1/3-4-5-6-7
11-12 19.50
Salary 30 . 00
Inspecting 1/17-20-2!?-
29-31 13.50
Salary 13 . 84
. 16.33
Expenses 1/16-21 14.52
" 1/20 6.30
" 1/1-15 14.57
n 1/27/10 11.50
Erecting Engineer 50.00
Expcnooc to ritt-Aurch
refunded 21,02
249.12
1001 TOMKINS COVE CONTRACT (PERSONAL)
Jan. 15 Checking Snare & Triest Co. Drawing. 24.04
31 " " " " " 41.73 65.77
1003 NATIONAL LIMESTONE CO. CONSRACT (Personal)
Jan. 15 Drafting - Buildings
1004
KELLEY ISLAND LIME & TRANSPORT CO. CONTRACT
White Rock, Ohio. (t.A.E.)
Jan. 15 Drafting
Jan. 31
J. McFadden
H. B. Snyder
H. V. Fry
J. McFadden
J. V. Fry
J . McFadden
Inspector
Expense 12/15-31
Inspecting Jan. 8
" 1/15-19-21
. 26
Expenses 1/17-19
" 1/1-15
" 1/26/10
Erecting Engineer
4.80
25.00
15.65
1.50
10.00
3.76
14.57
1.10
25.00
101.38
1008
U. S. CRUSHED STONE CO.
Jan. 31 M. B. Snyder
CONTRACT (T.A.E.)
Salary
[ENCLOSURE]
1011 GENERAL EXPENSE
12/31
l/l3-l<
Draughtsmen
w. Ii. Mason Expense
J. V. Pry 11 _ _
G. Erh Services l/l3
L. VV. Rodgers " 1/14 .87
\V. N. Telegraph Co. Telegrams 12/6-31 2.61
J. V. Pry Insptg. 1/13-14- Taylor
Company 6.00
Draughtsmen 16.31
Drawing Materia 1 11.40
Stamps 6.20
Telegrams 7.29
Telephone 7.40
Stationery 20.40
93.60
1012
SALES
Jan. 15
Jan. 31
100.00
150.00 250.00
1014 KELLEY ISLAND LIME & TRANSPORT CO. CONTRACT.
Marblehead, Ohio. (T.E.A. )
Jan. 15 Draughtsmen
" 31 J. Y. Pry Inspecting 1/26
Draughtsmen
J. UcPadden Expense 1/1-15
J. V. Pry " 1/26/10
144.59
1.00
84.05
14.57
1.10
245.31
1018
KELLEY ISLAND LIMBI & TRANSPORT CO. CONTRACT
Akron, New York. (T.K.E.)
J. McPadden
M . B . Snyder
J. V. Pry
M. B . Snyder
J. V. Pry
M. B. Snyder
J. V. Pry
Inspector
Expense 12/15-31
" 1/10
« 1/1-15/10
Inspecting 1/7-8-10
Salary
Inspecting 1/18-22-24-25-
26-27-28
M. B. Snyder
J. V. Pry
Salary
Expense 1/16-21
" 1/17-19
" 1/24-25
" 1/26/10
" 1/27/10
25.00
15.65
1.53
19.18
6.00
30.00
17.50
13.84
14.53
3.75
3.68
1.10
14.95 166.71
TOTAL
$1207.24
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April 1, 1910.
Mr
Thomas A. Edison,
Port layers, Florida.
Dear Mr. Edison:
I onoloso herewith letter from Mr. Williams of
the Edison Crushing Roll Co., dated March 21st, in which ho
refers to acceptance by the U. 3. Crushed Stono Co. of assignment
of contract made "by Messrs. ITusbaum, Klotz and Dreyfus to that
company, also enclosed, as well as acceptance hy you of the
notice of this assignment. Please sign this latter paper as
indioated, before two witnesses, and return all tho papers to me
in tho enclosed envelope.
The; Edison Crushing Roll Co.
ROCK CRUSHERS
August 24, 1910
Mr. H. E. Miller,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, H. J.
Dear Sir:-
Can you advise me whether ProfeBBorB
Pryor and Martin, of Stevens College, Hoboken, have
been paid for their testimony on the Boll BuitV 1 was
talking to Mr. Hicks yesterday and he asked me to get
this information so he would be posted.
Awaiting your reply, I am,
Yours very truly,
\
The Edison Crushing Roll Co.
ROCK CRUSHERS
PRINCIPAL OFFICE. EDISON LABORATORY ORANGE. N.J.
WORKS OFFICE. STEWARTSVILLE. N.J.
Stewartsville, K.J., Sept. 17, 1910.
Mr. H. P. Miller,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, E. J.
Dear Sir:-
In talking with Mr. Edison the other day
he said he would write a letter to Mr. Dreyfus and Mr.
Klotz if I would make a draft of it. Therefore, I wish
you would please have the following letter written on
Laboratory paper and give to Mr. Edison to Bign and then
forward direct to Mr. Klotz, President, and Mr. Moise
Dreyfus, Vice President, of the U. S. Crushed Stone Co.,
Chioago, 111.
My dear Sir:
Your letters of July 2nd to
the White Investing Co, and August 25th to
the Moose Mountain .Ltd. , and Mr. John V/. Gates
have been brought to my attention. I am
very much pleased to hear that the Rolls are
giving such satisfaction to your Company, and
I certainly appreciate the interest you take in
our affairs to write a letter like those men¬
tioned, above.
I have made every effort to
make these Rolls entirely satisfactory to our
customers and it is very gratifying to know
that they appreciate the work that has been
done, and I believe they will continue to oper¬
ate to your entire satisfaction.
Yours very truly, "
Yours very truly,
WHM-JW
The Edison Crushing Roll Co.
ROCK CRUSHERS
Stewartsville, N.J., Oct. 31, 1910.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, H. J. ‘jj
Dear Sir:-
On Friday Mr. Williams and myself went
to Tomkins Cove with Mr. Hermann and another gentle¬
man of the Moose Mountain Ltd., and a Hr. Hansen, an
engineer of the Grondel Process Company, They started
the Holls up while we were there and put through
approximately 20 oars. The rolls worked very well and
as near as I could ascertain from the load in the pan
conveyor the lower rolls were taking for that short
time, at the rate of 500 to 600 tonB per hour. Vie
made provision for another 4x3 Roll in the bottom
to be installed when necessary, but from the looks of
the test I do not think it will ever be neoessary.
The screens seemed to work very satis¬
factorily although the angle I believe is a little bit
too steep. This can be readily changed to a lesser
angle if it is found desirable. In fact, the whole
plant started off exceptionally v/ell In my. opinion.
Mr. Herrmann of the Moose Mountain ltd.
was very much pleased and seems to he very much in
favor of our crushing plant, hut the only thing he is
afraid of is the possihility of the plates on the
Giant Rolls wearing rapidly. He seems to have gotten
his information from the superintendent at Benson
Mines who had made the statement to him that they had
a pair of Giant Hols for sale if anybody wanted to huy
them. — CUsu. 'r /feu* up :•< ,,,Js ,V' .• . -
The Tomkins Cove people were delighted
with the way the plant started up and although they
have purchased two steam shovels, they are talking of
buying one more, to give them three to start in next
season.
Yours very truly.
WHM-JW
The Edison Crushing Roll Co.
ROCK CRUSHERS
Stewartsville, H.J.,
Mr. W. S. Mallory,
Presiden t.
Dear Sir:- yjt^
In reference to the trip I made to
Benson Mines, Hew York on the 4th instant in connection
with a letter we had received from them under date of
the 1st instant regarding plate wear, we found a num-
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her of conditions which we feel largely cause this
unnecessarily large wear and which it would he a very
Bimple matter to greatly reduce.
1st - The Rolls are set 6* Qb« center
to center of shafts. This causes all the material go¬
ing through to he reduced to 7“ or less. By opening
up these Rolls and making very much larger stone the
plate wear would he reduced to a very nominal figure
and as it was explained to us while at Benson Mines
that when new plates were put on a skip load of mater¬
ial was crushed in about one-half a minute, where after
the plates had worn the time of crushing was from 2 to
4 minutes. It was also noted that they allow their
slugger plate to wear down. This as we well know
allows larger pieces of rock to ride and grind the
Roll plates instead of shattering the material as new
slugger plates will do. V/e explained to Mr. Painter
and his assistant the action of the slugger plate, and
yte- feel that Mr. Painter is well satisfied that fcy
keeping his two slugger plates renewed as soon as any
material wear shows, that his total plate wear will he
very greatly reduced.
Yours very truly,
HCV/-JW
The Edison Crushing Roll Co.
Yesterday I visited Tomkins Cove again
and met Mr. Harsh of the Kelley Island Lime & Trans¬
port Co. , Mr. Lake and Mr. Seitz; also employees of
the Kelley Island Lime & Transport Co,
The plant is operating very satisfactorily
hut it still needs some slight adjustments on the
screens. Their preliminary screens Beem to he satis¬
factory now hut their final separating screens are a
little hit too steep. The speed of the feed roll under
the Giant roll 1b too fast and they are getting out
some pulleys to reduce the speed of this now. As it
is now, the 3 sets of Rolls take the feed at the rate
of over 1,000 tons per hour and reduce it to about 2"
sizeB. The Tomkins Cove people are very much pleased
and are now making arrangements to purchase for de¬
livery next Spring another steam shovel and some more
cars.
They have only put in one half of the
screens that the plant is laid out for. These can he
put in at any time as everything i8 provided hut it
is a question now whether they will neet the extra
screen capacity for the present screens are almost
satisfactory and 1 believe a little adjusting will
fill all their requirements. Mr. Harsh of the Kelley
Island Go. was very much pleased v/ith the plant and
says he regrets very much that he did not put in two
smaller Rolls at Akron instead of UBing the old Gyratory
crusherB which he has, and would do this now hut Mr.
Gowan, the head of the company, is very ill and he
does not like to make any definite plans and there¬
fore expects to run through next season with the pre¬
sent equipment. However, he wants to put in a set of
our screens in the Akron plant to take the place of
the rotary screen which he used laBt year and which
gave him so much trouble.
In regard to the plate wear at Akron
v/hich figures out on the Giant Rolls approximately .6
per ton, he said that he did not think this was excess¬
ive; that the stone was; very abrasive and that he
thought his total repairs in his crushing plant in¬
cluding Rolls and Gyratories was less per ton than
it had been before the rolls were installed. He has
the rolls set up now just as close as it is possible
to put them and said this is necessary in order to
get that quantity through the gyratories. I explained
to him fully that his wear could be very greatly re¬
duced by installing extra rolls and opening up his
preliminary Giant Roll. He understands this and said
he would like to do it but under the circumstances
will not make any changes for next season except to
install the screens if we can make a proper lay-out.
He was very much surprised that the screens at Tomkins
Cove would work as they do and says he expects to in¬
stall this kind of screen in his various plants as
soon as he can get at it. He further told me that
they were expending about $100,000.00 in building a
large concrete storage dock on Kelley Island in Lake
Erie. With this storage dock he will be able to load
the largest lake steamer with crushed stone in a few
hours by spouting it directly into the steamer and by
'this method he hoped to get a large part if not all
of the Buffalo ti’ade and other lake points which he
cannot now reach economically, and that in all pro¬
bability they would want to install a set of Rolls
at Kelley Island after -next season.
At their 'White Rock, Ohio, plant he
tells me that the Rolls crush the stone to such a
regular size that he 1b able to get about 20# more
out of each lime kiln than he did when stone was broken
down by hand, and that the rolls there were entirely
satisfactory, but he was having a great deal of trouble
in his quarry on aocount of the large pieces which
would come out in the blast. He showed me some photo¬
graphs of th.eee which I will discuss with you, stating
that in using a Keystone drill and putting the holes
only ten feet apart the stone would come out and a
large majority of the pieces would be 8 and 10 foot
cubes which were so large that his steam shovels (90-
ton) would not handle them, and he is trying to figure
out some different method of blasting in order to
break these large pieces. I remember seeing this
quarry last summer and the stone does come out in very
large blocks and there are apparently no seams or
cleavage planes in any direction but apparently being
more of the nature of concrete than any stone that I
am familiar with. X suggested to him using a black
powder in conjunction with dynamite and two or three
other schemes, which he is going to try out, but he
says even as the stone comes out now he is able to
make a very large improvement in operating by the Rolls
as compared with his foxmer methods of Gyratories.
On the whole he is very much pleased
with the two sets of Rolls which he has had operating
for a portion of this past season and sayB he expects
by next June to be shipping 15,000 tons a day, but of
course, about three to four thousand tons of this will
be coming from Kelley Island where they are using the
old Gyratories.
Mr. Tomkins advised me that the other
quarries on the Hudson River were very much worried
about the installation at Tomkins Cove and they already
had an inquiry from one of the large bankers in New
11-12-10.
York asking them to make a price on the entire plant,
and from other sources he knows that the other stone
people on the River are very much worried.
I told him that you wanted to come up
and see the plant and they are very anxious to have
you come at any time you find it convenient.
Yours very truly,
( b jbj ' Win ^
Benson Mines Company
BENSON MINES, ST. LAWRENCE CO., N. Y.
Benson mines, n. y.. Nov. 30, 1910,
Thomas A. liaison,
. . . ...
Orange, U. J. Attention l,ir. ll.F.:.ai-l'er~'
i\W
Dear Sir;-
V/e have your favor of the 2bth Inst, with Vouchers j' 1003 and 1120
enclosed and note your confusion in regard to same.
It has been the custom und;we beleive( part of the agreement, to nay
royalty for ore crushed in the Giant Rolls upon the tonnage of concentrates
shipped, but, through error, royalty mis paid in August on 137b tons of con¬
centrates estimated in a stock pile ns vie made no shipments during that month,
our .Y.ill being closed down during that time. In Sept, we began to ship from the
stock pile and continued on through Oct. and into Nov.
Therefore v/e deducted 1375 tons, upon which royalty was paid in August,
from the total of the Sept, and Oct. shipments, in figuring the royalty for Sept,
and Oct., in order to avoid twice paying royalty on the same oro.
',Ve are returning the vouchers to you with the belelf that this explanation
will clear up the question in your minds.
Yours truly
K.
Mgr .
<R.c Rr
the Benson ore, and we think that Mr. Painter is
thoroughly convinced that if he had kept his slugger plates
in good condition and not have allowed them to wear
to the extent he has, that his plate wear per ton
would not have been greater than Akron has been during
this year, which as near as we are able to figure is
between 7 and 8 mills per ton. Mr. Painter brought
with him maps showing the iron ore deposit at Benson
Mines and the test drillings they have made with
analyses. They estimate that they have available at
the present level 3,500,000 tons, by sinking 50 feet
3,500,000 tons additional and by going to a depth of
100 feet, 3,000,000 more tons. With this there is a
matter of some 500,000 yards of stripping. It is
their present plan to erect a mill, preferably the
wet process so as to eliminate their phosphorus, and
to mine about 2,000 tons per day which would yield
them approximately 1,000 tons of ore, and would give
them work for 15 years.
Mr. Mason discussed at length with Mr.
Painter the angle of pinch and thoroughly explained the
tremendous difference in plate wear that a slight
variation from the correct angle of pinch makes. All
of these points were acknowledged by Mr. Painter as
being correct and his thorough belief in same. Mr.
Painter left for Cornwall Mines, Cornwall, Pa., last
night and intends going from there to Tomkins Cove
and will likely return to New Village before finally
going back to Benson Mines.
It is our feeling that the report Mr.
Painter will submit to Messrs. Pilling Sc Crane will be
entirely favorable to Giant Rolls and not in accord
with his letter of Jtewteat&er to us, or similar to the
interview you had with Messrs. Pilling Sc Crane on
November 18th.
Yours very truly,
HCW-JW
The Edison Crushing Roll Co.
ROCK CRUSHERS
PRINCIPAL OFFICE , EDISON LABORATORY. ORANCE. N.J.
Stewartsville, H.J., Dec. 9, 1910.
Mr. H. F. Miller, Secy.,
Edison laboratory,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
Replying to yours of the 7th in refer¬
ence to vouchers of the Benson Mines Company in settle¬
ment of royalty and your enclosure of letter from Mr.
Painter and regarding your request that if. settlement
is in accordance with contract that we will advise you,
we beg to say that such is our interpretation of the
contract.
. I Eire
We beg herewith to return to' you vouchers
and letter of the Benson Mines Co.
Q,. / YourB very truly,
\ . ■/' / THE EDISON CRUSHING ROLL CO.,
y,fTf
1910. Edison Manufacturing Company (D-10-39)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
business of the Edison Manufacturing Co. Among the documents for 1910 are
items pertaining to corporate taxes, advertising, material for primary batteries,
and a contract with Nelson Goodyear. Also included are comparative
statements of general expenses for 1909 and 1910.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include correspondence regarding a board of directors'
meeting, accounts, and other routine matters.
T7YE-, 8^-.
SPECIAL EXCISE TAX IMPOSED ON CORPORATIONS.
Office of Collector . . District oF.J^O:S£*fL.
. . .
. /a .
Attention is called, to the provisions of Section 88, Act of August 5, 1909,
imposing a special excise tax on corporations, joint stock companies, associations,
and insurance companies; to the requirements of said Section respecting the
preparation and filing of annual returns by such ooiporations, joint stock com¬
panies, associations, and insurance companies, and to the penalties imposed by
said Section in case of failure to make such return, or for the filing of a false
or fraudulent return.
As the prescribed return has not been filed by your company, and as the time
limited by said Section 38 for the filing of such return has expired, you are
hereby notified that, unless a full and complete return of your company is
received at this Office within ten days from the date of this notice, an examination
of your books and papers bearing upon the matters required to be included in
such return will be made, pursuant to paragraph 4 of said Section 38, and that
the tax so ascertained to be due will be assessed, and all penalties incurred by
your company enforced as provided by law.
' ,i ',\S. W. /'.MDir.SO:..
Collector.
W■P• April 29, 1910.
Mr. Charles \V, Anderson, Collector,
8eoond Distriot of New York,
0. S. Internal Revenue Dept.,
Custom House Building, New York City.
Dear Sir:
We Deg to acknowledge receipt of your notice calling
attention to the fact that this Company failed to make a report aB
required under Seotion 38 of the Act of August 5th, 1909.
In reply, we beg to advise you that the prinoipal plaoe of
business of this Company is Orange, N. J. and the books of the
Company are kept at this plaoe of business. A report was prepared
on Form #637 furnished by the Internal Revenue Department and was
presented to the Collector of Internal Revenue at the Post Office
Building at Newark, N. J . We explained to him that this Company was
a New Jersey Corporation organized under, the laws of the State of New
Jersey and that the principal pllace of bijiBineBo and the bookB were
kept at Orange, N. J. , but that we had a plaoe of business in New
York City, and he stated that Mb of floe was the proper place to file
the report. The report was thereupon left with the Colleotor. at the
Newark office and we hold his reoelpt for same dated February 28,1910
Kindly advise us if under the circumstances we are required
to do anything further to comply with your notice.
Thanking you for a prompt reply, we are,
Youtb truly,
EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
Vice President.
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVIOE,
2d Disthiot op New York,
Collector's Office,
New York, N. Y., May 3, 1910.
Edison Hfg. Co.,
Orange, N. J.
Slrs:
Replying to yours of the 29th ultimo, I have
to state that, i f as stated in your letter, the corporation
tax return was filed with the Collector at Hewark, there is
no necessity for any further action on your part.
Respectfully,
[FROM CARL H. WILSON]
NATIONAL PHONOGRAP
Moaoro. Hutloon: Looming: Riehl:
TThilo It is highly important, duo to our being
so far hohind orders,- tliat wo arrange to havo in stock, or in
sight, a sufficient quuntity of raw material of all kinds to toko
care of our primary battery business, it is also quite as im¬
portant that for tho noxt fow months wo order such raw materials
as conservatively as is oonsietont with our requirements, and
as Is absolutely necessary to insure us against any delay in
tho wanuf&oture or filling of orders promptly.
Plcmao look into this matter very carefully, and govern
your stook and orders accordingly,
5/LB/40. / C. II. W,
Copies to Messrs. UdWon: Dyer: Vobor:
1909.
1910.
8BLT.IH0 ft AR15I NIETRATI VE BXFBUSEv
' Officials
971.05
660.75
Sales
1442.75
2170.03
Accounting Rept.
517.42
535.66
Rilling Rept.
152.00
156.00
•.hipping ft Order Dept.
208.00
4X8.00
Pay Roll Rcp<>.
17.6.00
Vine. Help.
296.00
323.00
Film Dept.
1909.00
2296.50
Tranccribing Rept.
260.00
Chi capo Office - Rat lory
456.00
442.00
Chicago Office - Film
. 1169.67
1274.00
Adv. salaries
■ 65.00
260.00
Legal
2540.00
1755.69
Salesmen!! salaries ft expense.
2165.72
. 3u4 5 . 47
Catalogs , Etc.
59-1.56
2308.23
Papere & Magazines
790.67
3083.73
Exhibition
96.65
7.85
Entertainment
23 . 70
47 . 20
Freight ft Exp re tje
7424.53
6510.93
Foreign Shipments
21.33
2.42
Herecngerc, Carfare Etc.
225.03
105.08
postage
1404 . 38
1877.90
Printin ' ft Stationery
1693.41
878.03
Telephone
355.08
217.21
Telegraph
271.65
316.40
Travel
10.80.05
. 1538.74
FACTOR'/ EXPENSE.
Automobile
352.21
Experimental
5359.0.
10562.17
Extra Labor
08.96
335.54
Fuel
1558.20
804.il
Imp. ft Oon'l Repairs
1445.48
12.4.80
Insurance
18.20
751.64
Light, Heat ft Power
973.51
1956.91
Film Plant
1436.25
1609.16
•/aint. of Tools
2091.16
1748.48
patterns ft RrawingG
60.75
379.90
Packing ft Boxing
10953.43
9280.95
Rent
1350.50
li.ia.00
Stable
■ 287.41
2.50
Stock Clerks
143.75
64.88
chipping Clerks
200.85
234.00
'hop clerks
135.00
Taxes
5.00
Watchmen
364.30
870.90
Laborers!
23.00
Film Committee
640.50
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENCE.
Interest ft Discount
3627 . 02
1020.23
Vince laneous
1216.05
736.09
systematizing
511.44
Rebilled Account
257 . 94
GRAND TOTAL
6074G.79
64109.44
D • V.
I °! I c>
•June f, me
Ur. rororaba : Copy to Uoeara. wiloea — Ocull— j. reiser.
In reference to the loo Generators or Gnu
Outfits which Kelson Goodyear chipped to us on Kay 16th
nnd which ore now held in Jr, Hooper's 'Department , in ac¬
cordance with instructions from Ur, , viloon and so per my
letter of Juno let to Kelson Goodyear, please note that
these 100 Outfits ore to he held ut Kelson Goodyear 'a risk
until cuch o time as our stock of these Outfits is reduced
to a point that would make it necessary for us to enter a
new order. When that time arrives, these 100 Generators aro
to be placed in stock end tho Pur chasing Department notified
so that Kelson Goodyear can render a new invoice far their
value.
In case a new inventory period comes around
before these Generators are placed in stobk, X will notify »'r,
iiodfern so that he oon make the proper rooord covering.
?0 H. T. Deeming.
£tyvfe( k c
The
' s~\ Annual Report by a Domestic Corporation.
. ^y l— - yb
Organised and RcgistcrcdOtmlcr the Raws pfThtySlale of New Jersey.
The corporation above named, organized and registered undorthei Laws ot Hie State of New Jersey, docs hereby
make the following report in compliance with the provisions of an act of the Legislature of New Jersey, entitled "An
Act Concerning Corporations (Revision of i8p6),’’a»jcrtVe various acts agjerplatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
FIRST — The name of the corporation is. .
is the agent upon whom process may be s<
THIRD— The character of the business i s
FOURTH — The amount of the authorized capital stock is ,kj5~~o -c-
tied and outstanding is %r~^7a .£?.<? .. .
~'\ .
The amount actually
—
c^hJL.
President,
Vice-President, J^C \
! <£**&**?*■ ;**#; |
SIXTH— The next annual meeting of the stockholders for election of Directors is appointed to be held on
. / J - -
SEVENTH — The name of the corporation has been at all linids displayed at the entrance of its registered office
in this State, and the corporation has kept at its registered office in this State a transfer-book, in which the
transfers of slock arc made, and a stock-book, containing the names and addresses of the stockholders and the number
of shares held by them respectively, open at all times to the examination of the-stockholders as required by law.
WITNESS our hands the . . . . day . A. D. 191 O
■ t^^-2!t^<f>^L^?r>7^^.4£^yi^rrTPrcsident.
^ Secretary .
1910. Exhibitions (D-10-40)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents concerning
electrical and industrial exhibitions. Among the documents for 1910 are items
pertaining to the Ohio Valley Exhibition and the Boston Mechanics Exposition,
as well as the Panama-Pacific International Exposition planned for San
Francisco in 1915. There are also items regarding the Japan British Exhibition
in London and the Travel Exhibition in Glasgow.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include circulars and announcements for expositions and
trade shows, routine letters of transmittal and acknowledgment, and
documents that duplicate information in selected material.
Robebt W. Blackwell & Co., Ltd
Engineers and Oontbaotors
Parliament Chambers, Westminster
Company and ii
IS ALL LETTERS Tl
14, Great Smith Street
London, S.W.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq. ,
Orange. N. J.
Dear Mr Edison :-
S* u*L
/"February 151jh, 1910,
sMtwsu 4- ^ ei w.
tg.
I have noticed, with great interest, the reports of your late
trials of the battery, especially its application to traimvay service.
If you are now ready to put it before the street-railway men,
I would mention that there is to be held in London this Summer a Japan
British Exhibition, at the “White City" which waB constructed for the
Franc o-Br it ish Exhibition of two years ago. A Committee lias been
formed, with Mr A.L.C.Fell, Manager of the London County Council
Tramways, as Chairman, (I being a Member), to organize a Section
devoted to Light Railways, Tramways, &c .
The possibility occurs to me that you might like to exhibit.
There is every opportunity to do so on any scale you might desire.
It would give me great pleasure to obtain for you any information
whioh you might wish to have, if you are prepared to consider the
possibility.
The Exhibition of two years ago was a great success and
attended very largely from every part of Europe. The ooming Ex¬
hibition has been made the ocoaslon for a national effort in Japan,
whioh I should think was a guarantee that it would attract great
interest throughout Great Britain and the Continent,
I have instructed the Secretary of the Committee to forward
you the printed matter of the Exhibition which I trust will reach
you in due oourse .
Of oourse, any action should be taken at once and I should
hear from you quickly as to your view.
I think you may take it that there would be no better method
of securing immediate and wide publicity. Public feeling against
both conduits and overhead wires is much stronger here than it is
in Amerioa and there are many places where neither are tolerated
and where the need for better traffic accommodation is very pressing.
My kindest remembrances and best wishes.
Yours faJJMw3?ly,
RWB/PSL.
'Mk.-i- 5uJ,
1046, atcwcjo^.” ^
'ClCCh”"“'"“':v"'' ^ Slnuled.
= kg^ dI
Branch omcca: 'X3 I J J
Edison,
wjoW', . - . 21b±... . March, . 1 9 in.
'"frM ''h
You will remember Mr. Ross of
Black & White" who was with Sir Joseph
Lawrence some years ago when you were
all very exoited about the reception of
Admiral Dewey and the Lipton Oup RaceB,
and who was so eminently successful in
persuading you to take a day off on
board "The Erin". You will also remem-
•ber that I wrote to you some time ago
with regard to Dunderland iron Ore,
W. - ^pld that you were kind enough to write
j ^ to me with regard to that matter, in
J ^ whioh unfortunately my losses were so
serious.
_ Now 1 01111 taking the opportunity
of writing to you about another matter
•which I think is of some importance, and
« which - if i amfbrtunate in securing
ir co-operation - great things may be
10 ■ ,1 |im helping in the organization
a big travel Exhibition in Glasgow at
beginning of next year. I expect
.mat many of the Colonial railways etc.
•will be exhibiting, and I Just want to
know whether it will be possible to have
;y°ur new power battery on show. It would
iglve imraenser'impelras' to the Exhibition,
and it would wake up interest in the matter
in this country in a way that nothing else
( would do. If this can be arranged, I would
be happy to hear from you and to do anything
rthat is possible to facilitate the matter.
X think you will look upon it as
oommerolal .suggestion, and I know
it hat you will givejLt at all events most
favourable and friendly consideration.
With kind regards to Mrs. Edison
and yourself.
Thos.
“'^DcvdioM, SfcuHjort.”
PROPRIETORS OP
cStmite9.
SCcaa ©jjicc :
S2 ©ItticRcfe SfaacjovC', . SGth-April-j . 1 9-.-iq..
STRICTLY PRIVATE.
nANCHE5TCIJ.
LONDON.
EDINBURGH.
'K
AMV 2- ;sio
Dear Mr. Edison,
I am immensely indebted
to you for the friendly interest signified
by your letter of the 9th. indioating your
aoquiosoenoe in the suggestion that the
new store batteries should be exhibited in
Glasgow, and pointing out the difficulties
in the way which may be removed by your ne¬
gotiations with a manufacturing Corporation
in this country.
I thoroughly ho pe that
these negotiations may be completed in time
for the Jiravel Exhibition, but if not, an
opportunity would arise in connection with
the larger Exhibition to be hold in Glasgow
in May of next year.
In the raeanti me, I would
like you to give me the privilege of repres¬
enting you in the matter. I would also like
to suggest that we might make arrangements,
whereby I might be more extensively interested
in this great epoch-making development by be¬
coming the representative in Scotland, and
applying my whole thoughts to the problem,
as I would be most glad to do.
You can understand what
an important proposition it seems to me, and
how willing I would be to run over to New
York, arid discuss the matter with you, if
you think it has theelements of an arrange¬
ment in it.
You have been very kind,
and sympathetic in your letters to me, and I
appreciate this very much, as i am sure that
SfcagoA"
PROPRIETORS 01
^LwYuted.
DCcad Office :
82 01titcfic££ Sttivl, §(a&c^o\$', .
MANCHESTER,
LONDON,
EDINBURUH.
that it shows the ppirit I expeoted,
from my all^too=brief personal assoc¬
iation with you.
I enclose a print which will
interest you, and which I think will in¬
dicate to you that I have had other diffi¬
culties to deal with, besides my large and
greatly disappointing loss in the jjunderland,
and Edison Ore businesses, whioh I am now
beginning to forget.
With kindest regards to Mrs.
Edison, and cordial congratulations to
you, I am,
cz
Yours sincerely, /
A.
A
v3
P. S. 1 shall make enquiries in auth¬
oritative quarters, with regard to the
law limitations to whioh you refer.
Thomas A. Edison EBq, ,
P. LINCOLN MITCHELL
©Ma Halley lExynsitiutt
(Einximtcttr
(H
W0
AUGUST 29™ jo SEPTEMBER 24™, 1910 ^
fi£if§
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
„ West Orange
GELEBRATING
PROGRESS
IMPROVEMENT
OHIO RIVER
NAVIGATION
REPRESENTING
NATURAL
RESOURGES
OHIO VALLEY
tf™ «e> i
I am taking the liberty' of enclosing herewith,
clipping from recent issue of the "Times-Star" (Mr.
itself8 Iaft's PQPer) of thiB City, which speaks for
_ Subject to the usual shortcomings of reporters'
work, this echos our sentiments here, and. I trust
meets your approval. We are negotiating for one of
your Edison-Beach cars, which we expect to make a great
fuss' about to the honor and glory of all concerned.
We have just received word from our emissary
m Paris, which states that Ex-President Roosevelt, heantily
endorses the Ohio Valley Exposition, and is endeavoring
to arrange to formally open the same, for us, on the 29th.
of August.
, .. , President Taft will be here one whole week
at the close of the Exposition, and we cherish the hope
that you will give us further consideration along
the line of honoring us with your presence at some time
b®twe®a the 4th and the 18th of September, on the occasion
of a Thomas A. Edison Day", a programme for which we will
arrange and submit to you for consideration and advice
at an early day.
The Ci;ty of Cincinnati is most anxious to fore¬
close any claim it may have on you, by reason of your
connection with this City in your earlier days.
Thanking you for any further consideration,
you may give this matter, I have the honor to remain,
Yours very truly,
SOUTHLAND
EBD.D
Commissioner General.
DIRECTORS
SOcr°tp[yUNCOLN MITCHELL
©Ido ilctlky 'Lxynrittimt
ALFRED MUOCOHEN
JULJ US' KLE jSCH MA NN
IaonIeIsFe
(Emmurati
AUGUST R9th JO SEPTEMBER 24™, |9|o
THOMAS C? POWELL
JOHN A. RINGGOLD
BMHr
AARON iTsT-fx^
GENERAL OFFICES. PHONE MAIN II
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE B U 1 LD I
’CINCINNATI
°
F. B. DAVISON, Commissioner Oenon
EXPOSITION
CELEBRATING
TO BE AIDED
PROGRESS
BY EDISON
'■ -m
IMPROVEMENT
Commissioner Davidson Pays
Visit, to Great Inventor.
r “Mvns surprised^ by my reception
OHIO RIVER
Wizard May Participate in Cel¬
ebration of ‘ Edison Day. ’ ’
"At the same time I learned a lesson
i 1 hope never to forget— that u busy
; 1 man doesn’t mind talking to you if
! I U. Is along tho same lino as the work
NAVIGATION
Storage BatteryStreetCarMay
Be One of Show’s Exhibits.
i | he Is ongagcd in, but he doesn’t like
j ! to have his attention d Ivor ted to
j ' something olse^ r arrived' in New
York Saturday and sent a telegram
to Mr. Edison, asking him if it would
REPRESENTING
• "Thomas A. Edison Day" tit the Ohio
Vnlley exposition, In Cincinnati,* this
-summer. Commissioner General F.
B. DnvIdson of the exposition went
ho convenient tor me. to call on him
, Unit afternoon, or Monday morning.
Having not heard from him by Sat-
i 1 nrday night, I called him up on tho
i . long-distance telephone. I repeated
my telegraphic query to him.
NATURAL
RESOURGES
and secured the promise of coopera¬
tion from tho groat inventor, who
also promised to give consideration
to Mr. Davidson's invitation to him
to personally participate In tho day's
! my battery, pome;' otherwise, not,*
U was his reply*, showing that he Is n
f concentratlonist and didn’t want his
I trend of thought diverted from the
; immediate' subject. in hand. I as-
i I wanted to talk, about, and he told
" One of tiie Edlsou novelties which
the exposition ihanagers are consid¬
ering as an attraction is an Edfson-
i me he would be at work on Ills bat-
j lory all day Monday and to come any
i - "When I arrived at his office and
INDUSTRIES
liatteries, without! ’the use of trolley
poles or wires. Tlie only, car that
operation In Now York city, whore It
! .workshop the man- who took my
an ofllce lioy. Mr. Edison got up and
meet me. I toh^hlm of°our°forlh-
OHIO VALLEY
Is attracting attention from thou¬
sands of visitors. *— ,
It will be necossary.for the expos!- ’■
tlon authorities to. buy the**cnr at a '•
cost of $0,600. and sell it again at
comir.g exposition and told liimN we
wanted hiH support,
v" ‘I’m glad to see Cincinnati Is
waking up,’ he said. '1. have a warm
AND THE
the conclusion of the expedition. '
The body of the car Is 18 feet long, ;
•with four-foot vestibule platforms.
The width at the sills Is six feet six
place in my . heart for Cincinnati.
. von can say I may bo there for your
i exposition/ ”
i t0?k wlth him letter
SOUTHLAND
Inches. . Tho seating capacity of tho
of thox ordinary street cur, which '
the operation of the cn Ms burnished
by 200 storage battery cells, which ,
(HoreMit* m,der 1,1 e 80at8* Power Is •
i or Introduction from Prof. John L.
{ Shearer, superlniitndont of the Ohio
i Mechanics’ institute. Mr. Edison ns
: a . young man prosecuted u part of his
\ research work in the Institute.
.vun (ho car 160 . miles. Ten addi- .
tiona) cells, furnish the light, thus
preventing the dim lighting encoun¬
tered when the ordinary .street car
Is pulling a heavy fond up-grade.
I f #f ;
raphlc Add,...- ' , / ^'V ' tA *
,cDa&uxx>{- Glasgow." /'TN Q
h“"r' XJ-oXaca
j£i United.
82 Swt, S^WCJ^/ .
A
C'T
i*~sckai i « l /-X
x<t> *3!^# Q-e>w
Dear Mr.
^r^4iu '
I have/*been hoping to ~ ^
hear from you, in reply to my letter ^eT»u^
of the 20th April. fi
I hope I did not make
any unreasonable suggestion, and that I
you may be disposed to permit me to tf77~
run over and see you, that we may, if >■
possible, make some arrangement that I f\ /
would be to the mutual advantage, if y-ccta^STW *'w '56f /
that be practicable. | - /
I can well understand (J~G*>*!*&**t Ar“
that with the multitude of matters which L L
absorb your time and attention, this may,/ ^
for the moment, have been overlooked. fe-W vtCfp‘*7'' W**H
It occurs to me to I y d —
mention a rather important proposition, u>Jt£- is*^*™*-'*-*
which has been Bhown to mo recently, and
in whioh you might be interested. '
An Engineer in Glasgow \T \ \S
has invented a Suction Gas Plant, on a new . - -A., t**,
system, which effects an.;eoonomy, of Bome-''A,v' >./
thing like sixfcy per cent in the cost and^~ j* \
efficiency of Engines up to one thousand yl
Horse Power or more, by the use of dross
in stead of Anthracite ooal.
The invention is acknow¬
ledged by very eminent authorities here
to be vastly important, and a big English
Syndicate are trying to negotiate the rights.
It occurred to me that it
was a matter whioh might interest you, and
in which you, or Borne of. your friendB, might
wish to be interested, at any rate, so far [\
as the American rlghtB are concerned.
/
\P
Jt^T
cDa£rioM_ Glasgow.”
^Limited.
PROPRIETORS QJ
3Cu*3 Office:
82 ‘MilXeff. SWfc, 3&U>qov}',
,r*h- I would be very pleased to get
you full particulars, if you think it
worth while.
I need hardly say that I have
satisfied myself that the invention 1b
important, and far reaching in its effects,
rendering it possible, amongst other things,
to make this power applicable to Ocean go¬
ing VesselB, and a«y- other directions of equal
importance.
I understand that the present
system of Suction Gas no advantage, as
compared with coal, in Engines over two
hundred Horae Power, and that this new
system carries this advantage to a praot-
ically unlimited power.
This is a point, the import¬
ance of which you will understand much
better than I do.
Obviously there are other ad¬
vantages which would be equally manifest
to your, mind.
Kindly let’ me have a line at your
earliest convenience, as l have asked the peo¬
ple concerned to delay matters until I have
oommunicated with you.
With kind regards, I am.
Yours sincerely.
Thomas A; Edison Esq.
e,SB.j(c
&cliso/z
aynes
<f- (So.,
Our 1 Y/iolcsale Stock
Mr. Thos. A. Edison
Orange., N. J.
Dear Mr. Edison
onocjrap/s and ^Records
and ^/III Supplies.
Jlo. 5 Jlort/i Seventh Street.
Richmond, va. s»Pt- v**.. iam.
c^enh<t*^d
^
See through our local papws you contemplate coming ...
» IAaAj So J
tlto come please advise me and I
tLeojt. LXA-es^M"*— <~/£ y-i-'S
) you/enjoy yourself (while here.
fs.^lSre s^fjw arbu^an up to
•e/?%hich I can en-
here during the State Pair, ’it you inter**
will see that no opportunity i shjo s t*" t o\h
Want you to make our place youkW®fci-<?t^?ers.''
date Edison Phonograph store. Hotel accommodations here l
gage for you, will be fine.
It will be one of the greatest doogtta Jtft the Edison
goods in the South if you will visit Richmond, because you do otftknow the
admiration the Southern people have for you. If there is any possible way
for you to come please do so. You can take a night train frorffNewark and
arrive here in time for breakfast, returning it is equally ;asV«ood. Please
let me hear from you.
Yours very truly.
October 5th, 1910.
Mr. Ft L. Dyer:
Referring to the Boston Mechanics Exposition which
opened on Monday:
Would respectfully advise that our exhibit is the
finest thing in the show, and quite the best display of our
goods that I have ever seen.
She exhibit in question dominates the entire show,
and is arranged on the stage which oooupies almost the entire
width of the main building which is called "Grand Hall,"
which we have made into an auditorium and which will seat ap¬
proximately 300 people, besides having ample aisle space to
take care of the over-flow.
It is brilliantly lighted, with four immense plate
glasB windows in the front, which act as show windows from
which our goods can be seen by every one on the floor.
These windows are draped, and enables us to darken the stage
and give moving picture shows, which is done about each hour
during the afternoon and evening.
We have secured the loan of eight oil paintings, one
of which is valued at §3,000. and which adorn the walls of
this auditorium.
Conservatively, we had aboiit 2,500 visitors on Monday,
who spent considerable time in the exhibit, and assuming we
win have than many or more each day for the next four weeks,
there will be posBibly 60,000 to 70,000 people who will not
only see the moving pictures, but who are listening to the
Phonographs under the most favorable condition, and who spend
at least half an hour in the booth.
The two rooms off the stage are oooupied by the Bos¬
ton Jobbers, and immediately after the moving picture shows,
the doors are thrown open, giving direct aooeBB into these
rooms, and they thus obtain their share of the visitors.
Pown in front of the stage the Mis on Business Phono¬
graph Co. , ana the Bates Oo., are exhibiting on one side of
the main entrance, ana on the other siae are the Edison Stor¬
age Batteries; the Edison Primary Cells and the Edison Pro¬
jecting Machine,
As an advertising feature I think this display will
he worth all that it costs, and 1 would respectfully suggest
that it would he well worth while for the heads of Departments
to visit this exhibit if they can go.
Am attaching hereto some of the advertisements and
newspaper notices which I picked up during my short stay in
Boston. In addition to this the eight sheet poster®
which have been used for advertising the show all contain
the Ihoraas A, Edison announcement, and we have already se¬
cured a great deal of publicity in that way, I also un¬
derstand that the newspapers in almost all of Hew England
are being favored with some advertisements, and have also
had newspaper notices regarding the show.
She show continues until October 29th.
Copies to:
Messrs. M-lson; Weber; MoOhesney; Y7m. Pelaar; Berggren; Stevens
Durand; Bee; Hudson; John Pelxer; Burnham, Jr.
1910. Fort Myers (D-10-41)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
maintenance of Edison's home and property at Fort Myers, Florida. Among the
items for 1910 are letters regarding remodeling of the house, storm damage,
plantings, and materials ordered. There are also letters concerning travel plans
and electrical supplies ordered from the West Orange laboratory by Frederick
P. Ott in Florida.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include bills, receipts, letters of transmittal and
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orange, IT. J.
Dear sirs
Tours of the 6th lust, received vri/6h check for
$2,000. oo, -vdiich amount 1 have placed tq'your credit with
thanks. /
I also received your letter this morning stating that
your assistants would reach he re /by January 26th and for me
to arrange for their board, wtyfah I will do.'
1 wired you several/lays ago that the house would be in
readiness by the 20th inst / I really believe that we will
have it ready by thel 16ty or 18th, but preferred to be sure
about the matter. /Consequently, I stated the 20th. I expect
to have 'everything/ ready for oooupahoy by that time and in
good shape, and I (believe you will be pleased with all of it
when you see it. \y
proctor & Company
Importers of
Bntique anb flfcobern Draperies
Jfnbrlcs for Mall anb jfiirntturc Goverliip,
BjmbrotDcrlco . tapestries . ©dental IRutio
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Mrs . Thomas A. Edison,
Llewellyn ?ark,
Oraugo, H. J.
Dear Madam
I was sorry to miss you to-day when you called at the
store. 1 received from Mr. Dodds the message which you loft, and
regarding the same would say that v/e have ordered the car for Friday
morning. It will be at the P. R. R. freight yards, which are at
37 Dtreet & North Rive^'hN. Y. . it would be impossible for the car
to stop at Newark as the car is loaded before leaving the yard, and
cannot be opened again until it reaches its destination.
I.t will bo necessary for the car to be loaded completely on
Friday in order that it may leave the yard Friday night, or Saturday
morning. The probabilities are that it will leave Friday night.
fhay inform us that the car can remain over, but will charge so
much a day, I think 55-00 a day for tho car remaining in the yard
if "ot filled up tho day for which it is engaged for.
The Pennsylvania people will not give any positive assurance
as to the length of time the car will take in reach Fort Myers, but
they assure us that it will go straight through, and this is as much
as >"a can got out of them.
'7e will send our first load over very early on Friday morning,
and 1 hopo that Mr. Hdisnn will bo able to get his
truck with such
Iproctor & Company
tmportere of
antique anb flfcobern Draperies
Jfabrlcs lot IRflnU anb Jfittiiltnrc (Covering,
Sjinbrolbcrlco . (Cnpcatrles . ©rlcntal TRupa
144 5tb avenue. Uclepboiic, 447S Cbelaca. IReW U?Orh, 190
things as he wants to ship clown as early an possible in order to avoid
any delay.
"'ill you kindly let me Know if I an to purchase the wash basin and
pitcher set for the uuest Room, for which i have purchased the enamel
stand.
'.'/ill you also advise me if you have found a bureau for tho boys!
room? J understood you were to 'phone me about this. There should be
no time lost if this is to go down with the other goods.
y/e have not yet received tho old rollers for the window shades in
tho old Llewellyn Park House. Did you send them? If not, will you
please send them, so that the matter can be gotten under way and wound
up.
The cushions for which you gave Mr. Dodds an order, are they all
for the South? I will put (the cretonne covers in work for the boys' room.
I yours very truly,
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Dr. Douis Schaefer,
Schaefer Alkaloid Works ,•
Maywood, HeW Jersey*
Dear Sir:
Down here in Florida where I spend
my winters, they have jUBt erected a large
Orange Packing House. Of the total Oranges and
Grape-fruit shipped, about 50,000 boxes are ,
rejected and thrown away. 8“ :
I have spoken to the President, Mr.
Hoitman, suggesting that , they .write you and
ascertain if you would handle the* product , if
they . ,wo.i^ld , put r i n,a pijess^and express the
jttice from 'the " Drddge s ' ail'd ' G'tap e -fruit and
< ' ‘ '“feiey^couidOahip'' tie' peel forRfurther
extrac^pQ o£ j^of,, Design., ;t, +v.
iOTTOAiw~ He wilj. pyobably write you on the
subject;
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ponu 5,9taVv40«j' fc jjj,* j;qTi{?&S5.p,$)
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wholesale and retail grocers.
May 30th, 1910.
eraitod, the monkey cage moved and the ohioken house built
ani hftpe to got the swimming pool started next weak. Have
also had lo^la spray all the trees thoroughly.
I have not heard from you in reply to my letter
ila regard- to making a change of men. Whatever your wishes
are, j will be ^lad to comply therewith, We have had some
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MENGE BROS., Owners
Tlmimts h- griisnn, flnmta, Smimurr, Ngnnzn, gmiitulr, TOng and ^ndrns
PLYING BETWEEN FORT MYERS AND ALL POINTS ON THE CALOOSAHATCHEE AND ORANGE RIVERS.
GOOD PASSENGER ACCOMMODATIONS
July 14th, '10
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Would it he possible for us to interest you enough in our
behalf to induce you to loan us One or Two Thousand Dollars at Dive
Per Cent for one year?
Mr. Thomas A. Edison.
Orange,
N.J.
Dear Priend: -
We are fitting up the Steamer Suwanee for the run to Okeechobee
and possibly as far as Kissimmee. We have bought a steel Hull Steamer
105 X 20 and this has caused us to run short.
If you can arrange this for us it would confer a great favor.
We can give Mortgage if you wish. At present we own the following Boats:
T. A.Edison, Suwanee ,Uneeda, Ralph Barker , One Power Barge (capacity 6 cars)
and four napth* launches, also one set Steam Ways valued at (410,000)
Ten Thousand Dollars.
We have no incumberences on any of our property. .
An early reply will be greatly appreciated .Hoping yourself
and Pamily enjoying good Health,
We are yourB respectfully,
proctor & Company
Bill potters or
Hntique anb flfcobern Draperies
Jfabrlca tor Ufflall anO Jfutnitute dooerlng,
Embroideries . tapestries . ©rlental TRugo
Selepbone, 5302 nBurcas filll. IReW POfh, ■j-5* 191^
Orange, N. J.
Dear Mrs. Edison: -
A couple of days I sent over some boxes, by express,
which wire for use in packing away the various hangings in your rooms,
and the men we ro sent out this morning to take them down. I think they
will be able to take them all down and pack them properly before
Saturday noon.
’.Then I saw you the other day I meant to ask you if! you would be so
kind as to send me a check for the balance of the port :-eyer account,
which is $4372.73. I regrot very much to be obliged to ask you for this,
but tho fact of the natter is that i am extremely short of funds at
present, and wo are having some very large payments to make now for goods
received during th? season. If you could help mo out to this extent at
this time, it would be very greatly appreciated, and the remainder of
the account could 3tand ovor until early fall.
Thanking you in advance for your courtesy in the matter, I am.
mew Both.
Mrs. T. A. Edison,
Llewellyn Park,
Mr. ffhoraae A. Edison,
Orange , H. J.
Dear sir;
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Department of Agriculture ana 1 immediately went out t6 JC)^
Bee Hr. Hoyle in order that I might make a report as re- T *4
quested, gat he states that the plants were never receiv- ^ /
ed by him from the department and 1 have so advised the de- _/
partment.
Yours truly.
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Copper stills 3 Gallons « » 2710
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Wolf« bottles 200 CO
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Wolff bottles 300 CO
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1910. Legal Department (D-10-43)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
activities of the Legal Department, a centralized office for the consideration of
legal matters involving the Edison companies. Included are items that pertain
to litigation or to the organization of companies, as well as items that address
general concerns of corporate structure and financial and legal responsibility.
Most of the documents for 1910 consist of letters and memoranda to or from
Frank L. Dyer, general counsel of the Legal Department, concerning
settlements with injured employees, the proposed annexation of the Silver Lake
section of Belleville to Newark, the organization of an engineering department
at the West Orange laboratory, and Dyer's personal investment in the
Condensite Co. of America.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include perfunctory letters of transmittal and
acknowledgment, memoranda arranging or inquiring about litigious matters,
documents of a personal nature, and items that duplicate information in
selected material.
HELM & KNIGHT
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Newark, N. J . , January 8th, 1910.
Frank L. Dyer, EBq.,
legal Department Nat'l Phono, Co,,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
There are three matters that 1 desire to see you about
First, the case of Minchin, who had three fingers
cut off at the Silver lake plant and whom we offered a settle¬
ment of ten dollars a week for three months and $250, in cash.
He declined this settlement at the time and said he would see
us later about it. He and his father called at the office
yesterday and said they wer& willing to settle for $1000. and
the .amount of the doctor's bills, which would be probably
within $100.
Second, the ■Bnjployers liability Act. This subject
was before the laBt session of the legislature and will doubt¬
less come up again this winter. There is much to be said on
this subject and there is considerable correspondence in your
files which will bring the reasons for our action last winter
before you, i»hlch X can explain in an interview.
Third, the probable annexation of Belleville, which
includes Silver lake, with the city of Newark. This we have
opposed for several years for many reasons. The principle
iivolved being that the taxeB on the Silver lake plant will
doubtless be increased by annexation. This is another broad
subjeot and one on which considerable correspondence existB,
but which I can alBO enter into fully in an interview, if you
desire that.
If convenient to you I should like to see you about
the 13th, 14th or 15th inst, to discuss these matters with yout
or, if you prefer, you can advise me by letter.
I have hot received any acknowledgement of my letter
advising' you of the settlement of the HaaB case and presume
this has escaped your attention.
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THOMAS A. EDISON, President.
W. S. MALLORY, Vice-President.
H. T. MILLER, Secretary-Treasurer.
EDISON CHEMICAL WORKS.
TELEPHONE “1086 BLOOMFIELD."
Silver Lake, n. J., pet>.is/io.
Mr. ?. Ti. Dv er.
Orange, IT. J,
Dear- sir:-
I think it would be an excellent idea for us to push tile
anexAtlon of silver Take^ to Newark- on account of f i refr.egul*
art-tons. As you know. the;. service from Belleville is nothin*
and- we have to depend on the gopd will of Bloomfield and Newark
to help us. At present we find .that- from our different hydrants
and fire-hose connect i ons. we can use only three streams to any
advantage, as the street supply is not sufficiently large. If
we could get into Newark, thSt( would make extra connections so
that our supply would he abundant, and also wo should have the
advantage o' the Immediate, service-of the fir.e departments'
iliere is- another yfay of getting thjs ejxtra supply, but it
costs us . from $SOO-<5i;qo and that. is to pay to Newark water de¬
partment, the expose o* laying about- -3-400 ft. of mains.. The
Newark Dept. ,-:-wlll do this work foi* us at Once as i have already
seen thenl On the prop'ostion.
I should like to have vO’tir -opinion on the subject. You know
that the people here at Silver take have been agitating the ques¬
tion of annexation to Newark for a year or more and r believe, if
we push the thinlg, it would go through, 'lie only opposition is
by Hendricks, a copper manufacturer in Soho.
Yours sincerely.
February 18, 1910.
Mr. John V. Millor,
Ketison Chemical Works,.
Silver Lalce, IT. J.
My dear Sir:-
Mour favor of the 16th inot. , lias been re¬
ceived. Sometime ago tho question was brought to my attention
by Mosers. Helm Si Knight whether wo should continue to opposo the
schomo to annox Silvor Lako to ITowark as wo had. dono in tho past,
and upon discussing it with Mr. Kdison we both thought that it
would no unwise to opposo this proposition any longor. In tfiow
of tho fact that it was only quite rocontly that wo woro vlolontly
opposing this proposition, it sooms to mo that it might bo woll for
us to wait a little loggor boforo coming out in favor of it. It
might 'bo difficult for us to effoctivoly explain our change in . \
attitude. On the other hand the withdrawal of our opposition would\
probably rosult in the legislation going through, booauso I under¬
stand that tho settlement, is distinctly in favor of it. Should
tho annoxation take plaoe, I understand that tho question of fire
protection will bo takon care of, and, therefore, it might bo woll
to do nothing with the suggestion of putting in an extra man as
you suggest, at least until we hoar that nothing will be done for
sometime with tho annexation proposition.. I undorstand that you
aro turning ovor to tho battery Co. , chemicals as manufactured by
you, and that you do not carry any considorablo stock of ‘thorn at
Mr'. John v. Miller.
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Silvor Lake, do that in case of fire tho situation might not ho bo
had. ■
If you do not agree with me in this mattor, lot mo
]mov7, and I will bo very glad to talk it ovor with you.
Yours very truly,
CVH
Vice President and Oonoral Counsol.
THOMAS A. EDISON, President. W. S. MALLORY, Vice-President. II. r. MILLER, Secretary-Treasurer.
EDISON CHEMICAL WORKS.
TELEPHONE "1086 BLOOMFIELD."
Silver Lake, n. J., FeD.S3/io.
Mr. F. Tj. Dyer,
TOd Ison Storage Battery Oo.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Slr:-
Xn reply to yours or Feb. IRth, regarding the Question of
extra water supply here at our plant. It would seem to me that
something ought to be done at once, as we are running a big risk
under the present conditions. As explained before, we can now
use only two streams of water to any advantage . Could not the
-question be Investigated to see what progress is being flade, and
whether or not "there Is a chance of the annexation, shortly? If"
this cannot be brought about within a year, as some people think
to my mind it would be well to have the extra main put in. Pos¬
sibly we could arrange with Newark to do the work now, and If the
annexation goes through to return to us our payments or at least
a good share of
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JOHN J. SULLIVAN
New York, February 25th, 1910.
Prank L. Dyer, Esq.,
General Counsel' of the Edison Mfg. Co.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
I propose to bring an action in the Supreme Court of
this State against the Edison Manufacturing Company for injuries
suffered by one Madeline J. iVinckler while in the employ of your
corporation and I would thank you to give me the names of your
attorneys here upon whom I can Berve the complaint on behalf of the
plaintiff.
Die. P. Yours respectfully,
Mr. John V. Millor,
Edison Chomioal Vovka,
Silvor Lake , II. ,T.
Dour Mr. -Miller:
Yours of the 25rd has boon rooeivod, and in accord-
anoo with your request I im now looking into tho annotation propo¬
sition and will adviso you thoroon as soon as possible and particu¬
larly as to tho probability of spoody annotation. If t find
that thoro appears to bo no immediate pronpoot of bringing about
a consolidation of Bollovillo and IJawark I will lot you know so
that youoan toko the nooessary .^^ps to have the proper wntor
mains in st alio, and if possible make an arrangement with Uowark so
as to havo at loast :: part of tho osponoo roinbursod to you in
oaoe tho annotation ochono goes into offoot.
Yours vory truly,
P1D/IVAV
Gonoral Counsel-
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Memorandum r rECE1VED
A \ FEB 2S 1910
A ]/ rr r, scull.
Ur. Ifrecnk I. Dyer, \ * V _ — —
Referring to the attached letter, Mr. Plimpton in¬
forms me that an accident occurred to the person mentioned
tliorein (whose 3tage name is Broughton) last Spring. She was
engaged to make a jump of six or eight feet and a mattress was
provided for her to jump on. She sprained her knee and later,
vater on the knee, set in. The nutter wa3 than taken up last
Sumner with Ur. V/ilson and Hr. Scull and it was arranged to
pay her •ijilQO . 00 Ur. Scull mentioned the oase to some of the
other Manufacturers and they thought it would be a bad precedent
to establish. It was then arranged to have Sr, Plimpton pay
her oho money as coming from him personally, but her husband
thought she should receive more, and the payment was not made.
Ur. Plimpton says that he believes Ur. Scull Ins the
negative of the picture for w liich she jumped, and that Mr, Scull
is familiar with all the details. Ur. Plimpton advises me
tint he spoke to you in regard to this case two or three months
THOMAS A. EDISON, President. W. S. MALLORY, Vice-President. H.
EDISON CHEMICAL WORKS.
TELEPHONE <*1086 BLOOMFIELD.*’
Secretary-Treasurer.
Mr. 5*. I,. Dyer, General Counsel
tfdlson Storage Battery Oo.
Orange, IT. T,
Dear Mr. Dyer:-
Tn reply to yours o’* March 11th, with eclosure from Mir. Knight
regarding extra water supply, at our plant tor -fire protection
?/ould say that. T have read Mr. Knights letter and have come to’the
following conclusions: —
PURS'!*. Hot to rely on the annexation of Newark, at all.
SECOND. Mot to rely on Belleville, helping us in extra water
supply for rire protection and so forth, even though It should he
Incorporated.
THIRD. To arrange with Newark, to lay the extra mains and
If possible, get a rebate, should the annexation go through later.
I have come to these conclusions "Or the following reasons.
PIR.1T. Prom Mr. Knights letter I should judge the annexation
is out of the question.
SECOND. Should Belleville become incorporated 1 do not be¬
lieve they would do anything "or a long .time, to give us any extra
supply of water, or fire protection. We are a great ways from the
centre o" Belleville, and any "Ire Department that It might organ¬
ize would probably not help ub, vie have asked them several times
for various improvements, and have had no satisfactory results.
THIRD. We should arrange at once for more water and I have
already gotten permission from Bloom"! eld I’or Newark to lay about
200 feet, of mains through the Bloomfield streets.
Awaiting your decision
letter, I remain
m/hvo .
in the matter and enclosing Mr. Knights
Yours truly.
THOMAS A. EDISON, President \Y. S. MALLORY, \
H. F. MILLER, Secretnry-Trcc
$><UXz>,_.y (
,^\ -EDISON CHEMICAL WORKS
TELEPHONE "1086 BLOOMFIELD"
Silver lake, N. J., March is, 1910.
Mi*'. 1?, l. Dyer, dene^a! OounseL,
3d < on Phonograph Works.
Orange, H.j, j,
Deal- air:-
tn answer to yours of March 17th, regarding water supply o
to our' works, would say thftt X Have seen the Water Department
or Newark,, and they have already heffU” work on the laying of
the add Itionpnaln. we shall have to auply to the Board frffjllaailifch,
for a rehate^and r shall do this at once.
il03srs. 3?. Wobor, J^_Polzor, Hudson, Looming, Saromba, Dolbocr,
*3umham, Eairwoathor, Brora, Sohiffl, Riohl, Aikon, W. U. Mlllor,
Durand, Dod^o: ' *" *' ^
In order to avoid mistakos which have ooourrod in tho
past, oomo of which havo boon vory oxponslvo , tho following rules
must bo observed in oonnootion with tho production of now linos
or changes in existing produot:
(l) Tho Engineering Department must bo supplied with
as complete blue prints as possiblo of all linos. Eho Draught¬
ing Department will comploto bluo prints and bring thorn up to date
as soon as possible and supply tho same to tho Engineering Depart¬
ment .
(2) Anything in tho way of a now produot must bo first
developed in tho Engineering Department and a sample made under
tho direction of the Chiof Engineer. In special oases, where
a sample is not necessary, the new produot is to bo illustrated
by a oomplote drawing. Che sample or drawing must in ovory oase
bo approved by the Executive Committee or myBolf. After such
approval, tho sample or drawing will be turned over to tho
Draughting Dopartmont for the making of working drawings and blue
prints. When blue prints are made, complete copies must be
fumiohod the Engineering Department as well as all shop depart¬
ments that may be indioatod by tho General Superintendent. Under
tho present arrangement, with tho Draughting Department independent
of the Engineering Dopartmont, tho Draughting Department will be
hold responsible for the oorreotnoss of all blue prints preparod
by them.
(3) Whenever a change is to be made in any existing
produot, it must bo first approved by the Chief Engineer and then
approved either by me or by the Executive Committee. After BOoh
approval tho change will bo indioatod to the Draughting Dopartmont
(2)
by tho Enginooring Popartmont and thoir bluo prints corrootod.
Each change will ho indicated by the Engineering Popartment either
hy a new drawing or hy an Enginooring Popartmont "Change llotioo",
forms of which are alroady in exist once and must ho used. After
tho blue prints have boon changed hy tho Pranghting Popartment,
they will ho sent out to the various dopartmonts in tho shop under
diroction of tho General Superintendent. All employees aro to
he invited to mako suggestions hy which our product can he im¬
proved, and I hand you horowith copies of a form to ho distributed
to such employees as you think host who may ho ahlo to make sug¬
gestions. Shese suggestion blanks are to he used in every case
hy Heads of Popartments os well as other employees, and all sug¬
gestions as indicatod on those blanks to he turned ovor to tho
Enginooring Popartment.
(4) Phone vo r a change is made by tho Engineering Po-
partmont and approved as above indicated, the Engineering Popart¬
ment must immediately notify the Production and Purchasing Popart-
manta of each change, in order that the records of those depart¬
ments may ho kept correct. All now products will ho brought to
the attention of tho Production and Purchasing Pepartmonts hy
blue prints and specifications furnished hy tho Pranghting Po¬
partment .
(5) She Popartment Hoads and othorB to whom this is
addressed will immediately notify their subordinates of those
regulations and will ho held responsible for any infraction of
those rules by suoh subordinates*
All communications with the Enginooring Popartment are
to he sent to Hr. Sohiffl in tho laboratory.
E. 1. PEER.
4.-452-
MEMORANDUM
Ur- Holden: 'JT 4/36/10.
I hand you herewith oopios of House Bills Hos. 24,412
and 24,557 relating to trademarks , and wish you would advise me
if wo are interested in oithor proposition.
FLD/iTO p. i. d.
1479
MEMORANDUM
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Mr.. Holden: ' 5/4/IO.
Hoplying to your memorandum of the 2nd inst., I noto
that you think one of tho House Bills should he opposed and the
other one favored. 1 $ich you would prepare a letter which l o,
sign, addressed to Hr. Ourrior, Chairman of tho House Committee,
giving 'your reasons why tho particular Bill v/hich you oppose
should in fact ho opposed. Bo this as soon as possible, hooauso
there is always danger |f tho Committee reporting out tho Bill
and into tho House. Tho Bill which you flavor I do not
think requires any speoial consideration on our part hooauso it is
more or less immaterial whether it passes or not.
ELB/lOT p. 1. d.
Oct / 1(3', '19 10
Mr^Walter Eckert and Piles " OfGf ^ f TQO
Please send a check for $ ioO'.OO" to •••'•-
^Konnedy, 62 Broadway, Hew York City. Phis is our con¬
tribution to help defray the expenses of the Pittsburg
Calcium light company for litigation which they undertook
in attempting to have a State law of Pennsylvania declared
unconstitutional, this law affecting all Moving Picture busi¬
ness. This should be charged to legal Expense.
F.l.DYER.
Jamos H. Caldwell , Esq.,
100 Broadway,
Hew York City.
Dear Caldwell:
You have probably heard me speak a number of
times of a now material in which I am interested that we
call "Oondensite". It is a very wonderful substance, and
really believe it is dostined to play an important part in
industrial work- Wo are developing it through a company
called "The Condensite Company of America", and five of
W Montclair friends have subscribed $50,000 in cash, for
which they are receiving 6# preferred' stook at par and a
bonus of an equal amount of common stock. So far about
$30,000 has been paid |n in cash and the balance is due by
January 15th.
One of those frioncis has found it necessary to
re duo o his- subscription to $5,000, so that there remains an
available $5,000 of preferred stock that can be bought and
which will carry with it an equivalent amount of common
stock.- Y/ould you oare to subscribe to any of this stock?
12/27/10. NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY . J. H. CaldWellr
One or two of tho mon hero have tola me they would lilco to
got in if possible, but I doubt if thoy tako more than
§1,000 or $2,000; thoroforo, if you would like to have it,
I can lot you have $3,000 or $4,000 of this stock on tho
original terms.
I beliovo it is a good thing, but of course if
you wont %n I would oxpoot you to put up your money with the
idea of losing it so that if you made anything you would be
ploasantly surprisod.
Yours very truly,
JID/ITO
1910. Mining (D-10-44)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
mining and ore milling. Included are items pertaining to mining property in
Canada and mining equipment in Australia, as well as correspondence
enclosing ore samples or inquiring about Edison's interest in ore milling, mines,
and ores. Other documents deal with prospecting work paid for by Edison and
the progress of litigation against the Allis-Chalmers Co., which Edison was
suing for infringement of his crushing roll patent. One letter concerns the plant
at Dunderland, Norway, constructed by the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of letters of transmittal and unsolicited
inquiries, some of which contain perfunctory Edison marginalia indicating the
desirability or the value of ores.
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Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear Sir,
Acting under instructions received in your letter of the
20th August teat we have pleaeure in advising having disposed of
2S oases Machinery which wa e put up ae Scrap and realised £13:9 :-
Thie ie the beat that couM be done owing to the light
character of the 'beet's, and aiao to their peculiar cut, they bein,
of very little uee to any one.
We enclose herewith account current showing an amount of
storage to our credit. This leaves a debit against you of
JE2 : 13 : 6 which, in view of unfort mate circumstances ,we have decided
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O. J. CONLEY
.MINING ENGINEER
18 BROADWAY
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April 6th, 1910
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
Last week, and again yesterday, representatives of
the Allis-Chalmers Company called on me , for the purpose of
getting me to act for them as a witness in the case where you are
suing them for infringanent of your patent on tire large crusher
Rolls.
When they called last week, they wanted me to be a wit¬
ness for remuneration, which offer I refused. Yesterday, X
restated to them my refusal to be a witness in the matter at all ,
and they then threats nad to subpoena me, which I suppose they will
do.
I am now attending the Court of General Sessions in
this City as a Juror, and will be there perhaps all of this month.
They offered to gat me off of that— by what means I do not know—
if I am subpoened on their case.
Now, the object of this letter to you is to try aid find
out what they want to get out of me that will be injurious to you
or your patents. It seems to me by their conversation, that
they are trying to prove that the rolls were in operation and com¬
pleted about the year '92, but I told them that said date was
entirely too early. However, my memory, of course, was vary shy in
my whole conversation with them. If yoti think my evidence
would be injurious to you please put me in touch with your lawyers
here in New York, so that I can consult with them in the matter.
They can post me and if I am subpoened I will try and fight shy of
anything that will be injurious to you.
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nentlemenr-
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I have a sample of earth, or mineral, whii
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to he of some commercial value, perhaps ferr refining cotton
seed 411. <*re you prepared to make an analysis and report^
on this material? If bo, how much are your charges, and what
quantity would you require to make a satisfactory examination?
Yours truly,
now my health is so fine after the great surgical operation of 1906,1 am
intending to give active attention to this subject. Wharton is gone
but he once quoted the old saying: "A live dog is better than a dead lion"
get cyaniding down below $1.-1. 18 per ton, and crushing cheaper yet.
There is about three million tons of $4.-$5. gold in another spot
available, but the ore: is quite as hard as the quartz porphyry which cost s
45 pto crush at present.
There are enormous quantities of low grade ores over here,you may
know about the 53,000,000 tons in sight in the Ray Copper Co. ground, of
»0naItor“^4^ cgpj>er+ore ,l5ut V1*0*1 concentrates., so easily^and which is in
— . - ^te that carries nearly 85 % silica, that {hey are now
erecting a plant to treat 6000 tons daily. It has therefore about
$200, 000,000. ore in sight. The Co. report is available in N.Y.from the
N.Y.o ffice,or from Gatlin & Powell Co..
I therefore wish- to inquire concerning your machinery and if it is
avail able, and where.’
With cordial regards, I am.
Yours truly, A
The Realty-Business Cob-
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206 BROADWAY
Mr Thomas A. Edison.
.Bear Sir:
New York.
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I am informed that you have a quantity of
magnetic ore .running from 20$ to 25$, at Edison N.J.
I would like to obtain a sample of this ore, and if you will allow me
to send and take a small quantity, I will be obliged to you.
If it comes up to expectations,! may be able to useayite a quantity
of it, and will try and make arrangements for the entire output, if
our experiments turn out as successful as we think that they will.
Very truly yours.
Sept. 20, 1910.
Mr. H. E. Miller-! -
I hand you herewith letter to Mr. Edison
from R. V/. V/alker of Copporhill, Tenn. , together with pro¬
posed reply, which if satisfactory to Mr. Edison is to he
signed hy him and forwarded to Mr. V/alkor with a check for
£125.
I don't think it is necessary to got anything in
the form of a release from Mr. V/alker, hooauso I believe
his letter will answer all purposes. General releases
are so broad and indefinite in terms that a man with the
mental make-up of V/alkor might believe that there was
something ulterior in our motive in having him sign one.
X think, therefore, wo had better let the matter rest en¬
tirely upon the letter which he sent us and when the
check is returned to the bank you might pin it to the
letter so as to complote the transaction.
E. I.
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Sept.
Mr. r; '.7. Walker,
Copporhill, lom.
Door Sir:-
Your favor of the 16th inst. has been recoived.
I acGcj}$ your offer to settle your claim in full for $125.
and bog to enclose check for this amount. Kindly acknow¬
ledge rocoipt, so that I may know you have rocoived it.
1 note what you say regarding the losses you have
sustained in this matter and if it were hot for the faot
that 1 have already lost a groat deal of money in this en¬
terprise I would be glad to help you out, but under the cir¬
cumstances I do not fool that I can do so. Perhaps in the
future I may have ocoasion to call upon you to have you do
some vrork for me, but if so it will bo on the basis of a
written contract mutually satisfactory to both of us so that
there can bo no misunderstanding or uncertainty. V/hat you
say regarding deposits in the Arbuoklo Mountains is very
interesting, but at the present time I am so completely
occupied with other work that 1 cannot look into this matter.
However, I will keep thiB matter in mind in case of future
development.
/O 1 '
I send to you by express to-day, a copy of complainant's record
on final bearing; in the rolls suit. It may perhaps interest you and if
so, I should be indebted to you for any argument based on the evidence
which will prove that the defendants' Pekin rolls are provided with
slipping power connections whereby a slip necessarily occurs between the
belt and the pulleys on the roll shafts.
I shall contend on the argument that the invention is not
limited by belt slippage and is broad enough to cover any massive belt-
driven rolls having roughened surfaces provided one roll does not drive
the other. In other words, I shall contend that the invention is broad
enough to cover such rolls when they are not geared together. In my
view, the words, "independently-driven and di sconneated" , mean that each
roll receives its motion from the driving belt independently of the
other roll, which means that one roll does not act directly upon or
communicate motion to the other roll. If I sustain this proposition, and
and I am confident cf it in view of the state of the prior art, the xltxfeoc
defence of non-infringement will fall completely and the patents broadly
cover the breaking and crushing of rock by kinetic energy without any
limitation of belt slip. I believe that I have shewn belt slip in de¬
fendants' rolls, but I expect to win out on the broader construction of
the invention and the claims.
The index will give you a good idea of the subject matter.
The depositions cf Mr. Bentley (pp. 160 and 469), of Mr. Mason (pp. 136
and 242) and of Profs. Martin and Pryor (pp. 419 and 444) deal with the
question of invention and infringement. The depositions of Mr. Mallory
(p. 638) and cf Mr. Herter (p. 545) deal with the questions of alleged
public use at Edison, U.J. The deposition of Mr. williams (p. 373) deals
with the infringement consisting of the rolls of the Dunbar Stone Company
near Detroit, Mich, The ether depositions show how defendant^fcepied the
Edison rolls (pp. 12-223; pp. 201,242) and that practical men have never
known or heard of anythihg like the Edison rolls which have a capacity
never yet reached (pp. 593-634, 638). The deposition of Mr. Traphagen
deals with microscopical measurements made on defendants' chronograph
records of the operation of the Pekin rolls. \
There is an index of complainant's exhibits, sixty-cne in
number, showing that the subject matter, especially the principles in¬
volved in the rolls, is fully presented.
There is also an index of the numerical tables contained in
complainant's record. These I worked cut with great care and introduced
them principally through Mr. Mason, excepting those tables consisting
of measurements by Mr. Traphagen and Profs. Martin and Pryor.
Oct. 14/10.
The defendants being hard pushed, desire to take surrehuttal
testimony at Salt lake City, using Enos A. "fall. Mr. Wall secured a
patent, No. 332,978 of December 22, 1885, for a crushing roll, consisting
of two, corrugated rolls geared together, the corrugations slanting
and intermeshing. wall's rolls have nothing in common with the giant
rolls, hut defendants think that they can establiiih that Wall substituted
belts for the gears, each roll being independently driven by a separate
belt. Even so, the rolls themselves were geared together by reason of
the intermeshing c orrugations. As it will be necessary for me to
cross-examine Mr. Wall, after consultation with Mr. Dyer and Mr. Mallory,
I shall leave for Salt lake City next Wednesday or Thursday. The case
will be argued at final hearing before .Tudge Haael at Buffalo probably
in December.
With my host regards, I am,
Yours very truly,
October 21, 1910.
Mr. Small: -
I return herewith the file containing all
the papers in rcforenoo to the Ore-Milling Syndioato,
Limited. Mr. Marks of London was here yesterday and
I discussed this question very fully with him and
Mr. Edison. According to Mr. Edison’s statoment to mo,
the original prospectus of tho Company provided that
all plans and drawings should he approved hy him, so that
tho plant at Dunderlond, Norway, was to he practically
huilt under his personal supervision. It vitas upon the
strength of this understanding that Mr. Edison subscribed
to the additional stock. He tells me that his lotter
hook will show that from time to time he discovered
from tho remarks of pooplo visiting Orange, who had boon
to tho plant at Dunderland that thoso instructions were
not being carried out and that apparatus werb boing in¬
stalled that he could not approve of. As a result of
this experimental apparatus the plant was a failure.
I want you to got from Harxy Miller copies of all tho
letters written by Mr. Edison to the london pooplo, and
also a copy of tho original prospectus, and when you
havo obtained these, prepare a statement of the ontiro
ease, which can then be sent to Mr. Marks and submitted
to counsel in London. According to Mr, Marks it is
possible to bring an action in London to havo Mr. Edison's
-1-
name strioken from tho list of stockholders, or rather
from the list of suhscribers, and in this way relieve
him of tho responsibility. Wo might, however, decide
that this would bo a better mattor for defense in oase
suit was brought in this country than to mako it an ac¬
tive aiattor for litigation in England. At tho same time,
if there is anything in this claim of Ur. Edison, a
liquidator might object very strenuously to Llr. Edison
filing such a bill and might be only too glad to consider
tho mattor closed. X suggest that as soon as you get
all the papers from Mr. Miller you bring up tho mattor
with mo and we will have a discussion before you bogin
tho preparation of tho statement for submission to london
oounsol.
E. I. D.
E ID/ ARK.
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Mr ,Thos , A . Edis on .
Oct ,25th, . 10
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As we are Miners of (lie a InS^rJ looking p>r~2 mar^fw^d^.
like very much to get an opportuEft^o^tve you” thArery^owett^onsi^tent
prioes for your supply. Va^/L c-V _ j
Wont you let us have your ^specifications Jon cut Mica on sizes
up to and including 4X5. or can you use 2t uncut or any wavST^ 4“’
An early reply will be very much appreciated.
The Otter Hill Mica Mines,
307 8c 30 9 West Broadway.
less to us,
** »re sending this da:' Wells Jfargo Express the one case
of mica, vftioh vill possibly *oi:$h a little o’re- loo pounds.
Vo. trust that the goods nil?, nest with your views in every
particular, and that we will have the pleasure of supplying you with
considerable nioa.
At the sane tine wo bag to o.oll your attention to our fac¬
ilities for supplying you with ?tion Insulation. We have unequalled
facilities for turning out this nata-ial in a very satisfactory man-
Cable Address. Micasmiths, N.Y.
JOHN C. WIARDA & CO..
MANUFACTURERS,
MINERS, MILLERS. IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS OF
Chemicals, Minerals, Clays, Colors, Electro Platers’ Materials, Etc.
Offices & Factory: GREEN, PROVOST AND FREEMAN STREETS,
Store House: HURON, PROVOST AND INDIA STREETS.
BROOKLYN, N. Y. Deo. 20, '10.
without charge for experimental purposes.
Wishing you the Compliments of the Season, we-remain
Yours truly, //
John & 'Co.
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1910. Motion Pictures - General (D-10-45)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
production and commercial development of motion picture films and the
manufacture of projectors. Included are items concerning photographic and
production quality, advertising, sales, film distribution, and the activities of
exhibitors. Among the documents for 1910 are letters pertaining to the
employment of actress Pilar Morin and others at the Edison studio in the Bronx,
the facilities of the studio, and foreign markets for films. Among the
correspondents are Frank L. Dyer, vice president of the Edison Manufacturing
Co.; George F. Scull, assistant to the vice president; and Horace G. Plimpton,
manager of negative production.
Approximately 60 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include memoranda pertaining to monthly prizes for
photographic and production quality at the Bronx studio; correspondence
regarding proposed scenarios; unsolicited inquiries; letters of transmittal and
acknowledgment; and documents that duplicate information in selected
material.
MEMORANDUM.
i wish you would look over tho attached oo:
rospondonco in r of or cnee to tiio Hickclodo jn, of Chicago ,
and adviso mo what you think wo should do in tho mat tor.
It sooms to mo that wo might vory woll follow Mr. Scull’:
suggestion and bring up tho mattor with the othor manu¬
facturers. At tho same time sinco Patho is advortis-
ing thoir machines in tho Ilickolodoon, I do not know hut
that it might ho a good plan for us to do tho same thing,
lathe is trying very hard to got thoir machines introduced
to tho tredo and wo
hlo.
want to hoad thorn off as much as posi
P. 1. D.
1 you herewith letter from Mr. Charles IT.
i^Kuige, with, an endorsement of Mr. Ediso:
think this suggestion might possibly he carried
out, tind I wish you would see what can he done. Do not give
it up until you have quite made up your mind that there is some
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January 19, 1910.
In oonneotion with the wood base board for
our lamp houses, the requirements of the Chicago authorities are
that we use a lamp house base board of some fireproof material,
such as asbestos or iron.
We have a price for an asbestos lamp house'
base board 3/4" thick and the some dimensions otherwise as our
present lamp house base board of 35^ each. Shis material is a
hardened composition mostly of asbestos and is termed: "Transits."
Will you kindly figure out vdiat our present
Oak lamp house base board completely finished ooatB.ua so that we
.h.th.t « „ poseltd. t0 „pJioa t]B woot iaw
»o.ri Mth the Transit. rtthoat a,anBi^ OT"„lo.„ „ the
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dee the Transit. has. hoard tot edd „ „ohdn.o, that do. tot the
lamp house only.
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Jan. 24, 1910.
Hr . Dyer:-
In re. accompanying clipping: The report
of investigators tends to prove that when celluloid film
is burned in the open with excess of air, non-combustible
products only are given off, while if the celluloid is
burned or decomposed in a closed vessel of sufficient
strength to retain the gases, the products thus formed
are explosive, being made up large of hydrogen and
carbon monoxide, and a small percentage of oxygen. The
report recommends that vaults in which the film is kept
should be provided with a ventilator pipe, so as to pre¬
vent this burning under pressure, and the consequent
formation of dangerous gases. The remainder of the re¬
port covers familiar ground.
G. jSsoull.
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MEMORANDUM
1/24/10.
U
Ur. Scull;
Referring; to your memorandum of the 24th on
the. subject of tho report on a celluloid film "by the
Geological Survey, you might suggost to Ur. MoChesney
that a paragraph should ho introduced into tho Kineto-
gram referring to this matter, and pointing out the
recommendation made hy the Investigators that when
celluloid film is stored in closed vaults, a vent
should ho provided to pormit the osoapo of evolved
gases. If you do not think this is a good suggestion.
Pago 2,
Ur. Scull.
1/24/10.
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COPY
Mr.' Horace G. Plimpton,
Edison Studio,
Bedford Park, Few York City.
Dear Sir: -
Jan. 26th, 1910.
I had- the samples of ".TAPAFESE PEACH BOY" and "SKIPPER'S
YARF" exiiibited yesterday for the Police Inspectors and there were
about a dozen in the audience consisting of Exhibitors and Pilm
men, and I was very sorry to note that the "JAPAFESE PEACH BOY"
was not very favorably received by them, as there were several
expressions to the effect that they were disappointed in the film
after having read the advertisement sent out in regard to same.
The unanimous opinion of all present was that the "SKIPPER'S YARN"
was a much better film both in photography and action than the
other, and I am bound to say that I agreed with them on this point.
I think the lack of interest is principally due to the
fact that the character of the film does not admit of Mile.
Pilar-Morin's exceptionally fine acting being brought out in this,
as it was in "COMEDY AND TRAGEDY," and the dyeing of her skin and
the Japanese Costume detracted from rather than enhanced her usual
good looks.
I trust you will take all this in the spirit in which
it is intended, as I believe that you wish to have honest criticism
at all times, and I am, therefore, giving you these opinions freely.
The transf ormation scene could have, been improved upon by having
the walls vanish at the wave of the magic wand and the surroundings
assume more of the appearance of a Palace showing the lake and
swans , as the audience gets but a very fleeting glimpse of the
latter, and the change in the appearance of the room is hardly a3
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startling and complete as the description of the film would
lead one to believe.
With best wishes for continued’ success , X am,
Yours very truly,
(Signed) J. H. Hardin
Telegram sent Jan. 2 7, 1910 - 12 i
Honora&ex Frank 0. -briggi
U.S Senate,
Washington
D.C.
Our moving picture business will be aff eoted
Dy passage of pending Sunday closing bill for District
oi Columbia, Bsjeoially as example of Congress will
influence other legislatures to pass similar laws, v/e
wish you would oppose the bill so far a3 it affectB
Sunday moving picture shows.
Edison Manufacturing Company
■ Frank 1. Dyer ,
C-A'T'S'
.Tan. 29th, 1910.
Hr. X.: IT. Hardin, Western Rep.,
90 Wabash Ave. ,
Chicago, Ill.
Hy dear Hr. Hardin: -
I have your letter of the 26th in relation to
"A .TAPAHESE PEACH' BOY" , and while of course I feel sorry
that the film disappointed you and the others who saw it
I am obliged to you for your frank oriticism.
It ivas perhaps a mistake in judgment to use
Mile. Pilar-lTorin in a story of this character, as, after
"COHEDY AND TRAGEDY" one would actually expect to see her
in an emotional role , hut she had such a great experience
in Japanese impersonations that we thought such a part played
hy her would he hoth novel and attractive.
I do not understand that there was ny particular
criticism on the film as a subject except that it was not
thought worthy of such an artist. Of course your judgment
and the others represented, I imagine men alone. The appeal
that tie story makes is largely to women and children, and
in this way I hope that it may still he favorably received
when shown, naturally I am anxious as to the result, as
the film represents a great deal of money and labor.
I do not quite understand your criticism as to
the photographic quality, as on this point ,<re all thought
the film was very superior.
Let me say again that 1 appreciate your criticism
as it is only hy hearing of defects as well as merits that
we can hope to reach the standard ive are all striving to
attain.
Yours very truly,
Edison Fanufacturing Co. ,
Klnetograph Dept. ,
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EDISON MANUFACTURING CU.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE, N.J.
EDISON PHDJEETINE KINETOSEOPES AND FILMS.
Mr. Prank L. Dyer, Vice-President,
Edison Manufacturing Co. ,
Orange , IT. T.
Dear Sir:-
I think everyone was impressed last week with the
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steadiness of^ Pathe Picture which wa3 shown in Orange as
compared to ours or any others. I have talked over this
matter quite a good deal with Mr. Oliver, and he has made a
report covering the subject.
I am enclosing a copy of this report.
Yours very truly,
Kinetograph Dept. ,
RE'/E:B Mgr., Negative Production.
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COPY _
STEADY MOTION PICTURES FOR THE EDISON MFG. CO/? ORANGE, N. J.
S Y
H. T. OLIVER.
,, a.. _ . J113 l’sfer3 to steady running Moving Pictures, that is
Motion Pictures that are perfectly steady corresponding to Pathe
Preres recently run at Orange.
I am positive that it is possible for us (or anyone)
to make as steady pictures as Pathe- Preres provided we have the
equipment and negative and positive to do so.
I believe we have (and are making) our pictures as steady
as it is possible with the present equipment. This question often
arises in our pictures? "Why do some of ours run steadier than
others';1' This you will please note and readily observe is easily
explained when one considers that there are so many things that
will make a picture .lump on the screen. Collectively they are:-
Unif ormi ty of Pilm
Error in Perforating
1 Error in Taking
Error in Printing
Error in Projedting
Shrinkage of Pilm Stock
The above errors are all multiples of each other in this
production and tfith our present equipment it is impossible to
positively determine each error to any degree of accuracy, or in
other words, it is impossible with our present equipment to have
a system or method of inspection that is fast enough to keep up
with the present productions and positively not to any great degree
of accuracv.
4. -n Methods could be devised and apparatus designed, to
actually eliminate the above errors under the direction of a
competent engineer with power to act in all matters.
.. . I ffi11 endeavor to illustrate in a brief and concise way
methods and apparatus which, (if applied correctly) will positively
eliminate unsteady pictures from getting on the screen in the reg¬
ular production.
ERROR #1:-
UNIFORMITY ON FllJf: If propel- gages are made
and operated on every piece of film by competent Operators, it would
be possible to check any inaccurate stock before it is perforated.
ERROR #2:- ERROR IN PERFORATING:- Perforators should be so
designed as to actuate correspondingly to our present Projecting
Aiacnlne , with a mechanical device for testing accurately and
rapidly all perforating applied to same.
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ERROR #3:- ERROR III TAKING:
as to mechanically actuate ta o
Cameras should he so designed
• present Projecting Kachine.
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lenheit and at as low and constant humidity as possible.
MEMORANDUM
Plimpton: 2/5/10.
Replying to your letter of the 2nd inst., with on-
olosod roport from !,!r. Olivor, I have examined thin oarofully
and all that I can see in it is that ho points out tho roasons
son© pictures aro stoady and others unsteady. All that he
\payo regarding tho unsteadiness of our pictures I agree with, hut
think it iu up to Pr. Olivor not so much to point out the reason
certain results take place as to indioato how tho defects oan
■vdiod. What ho should do is to suggest ways for curing
'lo and dovoto himself to having his suggestions carried
\ Ho oan count on ray absolute oo-operation in the
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natter. •<$? ho will only toll mo what ho wonts to havo done and
convince mo that it will ho a good thing and tond to c rroct
defects I shall ho voiy glad to help him all that I oan. I
think, however, rnthor thtui attempt to corroot all tho errors
at onoo it would ho hotter to to’eo up one orror at time and
push that through to a final correction.
P1D/IVA7
Jj\ L. D.
EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSEDPES AND FILMS.
V-
C/ (j Mr Prank L. Dyer Vice-President,
0 Edison Mfg. Co. ,
Orange, N. 7,
Dear Sir:-
Eeb. 8th, 1910
Referring to your memorandum 1281. The report
submitted of Mr. Oliver's was not so much intended to take
up any particular case as it was to bring the whole matter
to your attention. The facts seem to be that many cases
contribute to unsteadiness in our pictures, some of them
outside of this department.
I had intended to talk this over with you in
Orange last Thursday but I saw you for so short a time,
I did not have an opportunity.
I arranged with Mr. Walker for iaji< appoitment with
you for Mr. Oliver to-morrow morning at 11 AM. and he can
tell you better than I can write some of the things he has
in mind. ' ’ ' ‘ n:“- !"'1! " ‘,! v''
Very truly yours ,
Kinetograph Dept..
b/h.g.p.
Mgr. Negative Production.
I enclose copy of a latter which we received
to-day from Mr. Hardin. I append a paragraph from a
letter which I received to-day from Mr. Dawley in
Havana.
"In the short time that I have
been here Mr. Reade and myself
have heen compelled' to call upon
every Official in Havana. The
only one we have slighted' ia the
President himself. Mr. Reade and
myself are slowly hut surely work-
ring up. an interest in the Edison
Pic tures in Cuba and I would like
to know if the agent you have
down here has proved satisfactory,
&3 there is a party in Harris Bros,
store (which is the largest Ameri¬
can Concern in Havana) was very
anxious to take up the Edison pic¬
tures and push them. Kindly advise
me on this."
X do not know whether you care to go any further
into this question or not, hut thought that I had
better let you know .vhat Mr. Dawley had said.
Yours very truly,
Kinetograph Depju^
RBl/pp
[ENCLOSURE]
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Beb. 12 th, 1910.
Mr. Horace G. Plimpton,
o/o Edison Studio,
Bedford Park, Few York City.
Pear Sir:-
I have your favor of the 10th inst. , and arn glad to
learn that you will delay the release of “CARMEN" until later in
the Spring, and think it would he a mistake to bring it out under
four months at least, as the Exchanges would have considerable
trouble placing it with Exhibitors if it follows the Pathe pro¬
duction too soon.
I note the continued high quality of the Edison releases
and the little Comedy "QUEEN OP THE BURLESQUE" made one of the
biggist hits in all the downtown Theatres yesterday that they
ever had on the screen. The "PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL" is also a strong
picture, and elicited many compliments from the Exhibitors and
Exchange men who saw the sample when we ran it last week for the
Inspectors.
Wishing you continued success, I am,
Yours veiy truly,
(Signed) J. H. Hardin
Maroh 5, 1910.
Mr. Horaoe 0. Plimpton,
Bedford Park -Edison Studio,
Hew York, N.Y.
My dear Mr. Pliraptons-
1 have followed up the matter of
the photographing of real money, oo for aD I am able in
our library here, which has very limited literature on
suoh subjects. X have been unable find a Statute
which specifically forbids such photographing, and I
have also been unable to find any paBe which holds that
such photographing falls within the general terms of
the Statutes forbidding counterfeiting. In the |ncytlp-
pedia of Law, V.olume 7, page 881, however, I find a case
referred to which unfortunately is not in our library,
of which the following is given as the digest of the de¬
cision:*
"It 1b a criminal act to photograph
likenesses of United States treasury
; notes, although the similarity between
, the photograph and the original is
: not such that the counterfeit is oal-
f oulated to deceive the public. "
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Ur. Horace G. Plimpton.
In addition, there are other Statutes r/hich lead me to
believe that suoh photographing is forbidden. Certainly
under the above quotation it is forbidden, and I should
think that you should take a conservative attitude and
avoid any possible difficulties, and therefore refrain
from using real money in pictures.
Yours very truly,
GPC/abk.
Assistant to Vice-President.
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March 21, 19X0.
Mr. Byer:-
In re. proposal of Murkt fc Company for our
agency on filmB in Europe and Australia: The proposition
briefly was a guarantee of 35,000 feet per month, and the
films to he delivered to their agent, in Mev; York, where
payment is to be made to us at 6 oents per foot. \7e would
be obliged to submit camples and ppint on their orders.
I find that in Europe and Australia we sold
202,780 feet in Deoember, 213,445 feet, in January, and
137,996 feet in February, the report for the last month not
including sales to Vienna or Australia. Mr. Nichols, rep¬
resenting Markt & Company, told me that; 35,000 feet was
their guarantee for Biograph, that they had sold more than
twioe as much as this, and that the Biograph Company were
very well (satisfied with the arrangement, Markt & Company
at the present time have offices only in London and Berlin,
the latter having been open only sinoe the first of the
year, and they are about to establish offioes in Russia
and Bdroeloniaj Spain,.
,1 attach hereto Mr. Farrell’s report of the
foreign, Bales. /
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April 18, 1910.
Mr. lioraoo 0. Plimpton,
Edison Studio, Bedford Park,
Mew York, II, Y.
Dear Mr. Plimpton:-
In talking to Mr. Belig the other day,
he suggested that I tell you that when you are ready to put
in l£n tank developing system at the Studio, he would he
very glad to send you diagrams and Bpeoif ioation for the
tanks whioh he is using, which he olaima are exactly the
same as rathe are using in Paris. It seemed to me that it
would he well to keep thiB in mind, and avail yourself of
this suggestion for what it is worth.
In talking about the printing of titles from
plates, he told me that he was using plates photographed
hy tho wot process instead of dry plates. Ho claims that
the wet process produces plates with olearer whites than
the dry prooesB does.
Yours very truly.
GPS/ ARK.
Assistant to Vice-President,
I
EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES AND FILMS.
April 18, 1910.
Mr. Frank L. Dyer, Vice-President,
Edison Manufacturing Co.
Orange , IT.
Dear Sir:-
Confinning my conversation with yoi^i|ye3ter(iayjP
recommend placing Ethel Jewett on the pay roll at $-30.00 per
week to he in charge of music cues and all work of this nature.
She will also pose in unimportant parts as occasion may arise ■
without extra pay.
As I told you Miss Jewett has had charge of this work
for some time, hut we have been carrying her along on the daily
posing list at $5.00 per day. The above will give her a regular
position and will he much less trouble to handle in every way.
If this meets with your approval, will you kindly advise me and
I will send in an engagement card taking effect next Monday.
I believe that the work we have done of this nature is
beneficial to the Company and worth all it is costing. If you
will look at The Motion Picture World of April 83rd you will find
references to this subject on page3 637, 638 and 652.
t Yours very truly,
Kinetograph Dept. ,
Mgr. , Megative'Pr oduction.
/:/c.-Aa-V
April 20, 1910.
Hr. MaChesney
1 return herewith letter anti enelosures
of the A.B.C. Company. The hill iB properly made up
according to the reported sales. Under the agreement,
the reported soles are supposed to cover a period of
thirty days after the release date. I note that on the
slips covering the earlier releases, sales are reported
for a period of more than thirty days after the release
date, whereaB, in the later releases, this is not true.
For instance, in the slip covering "V/hat the Cards Fore-
told", sales are reported as late as January 28th, the
release date being December 7th, whereaB, dn the last
slip covering "The Skipper's Yarn", the release date is
January 28th, and the last reported sale is February
16th. I think it might be well to call the attention of
the A. B. C. Company to this, so that we can be sure that
the soles actually cover a period of thirty dayB after
release date, whioh might make a difference of §5. to
us on some of the posters. Note, for instance, that
"Pa^nerfl", released January 4th, the reported saleB are
900, whereas, the last reported Bale is January 28th.
It might readily be that between the 28th of January
and the 4th of February, one more poster might be sold,
which would entitle us to a rebate of #5 . You will
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understand that I do not mean to Bay that any posters
were sold during this period, hut 1 think it would he well
hereafter to have the A. B« C. Company's certifioate
state that the sales that they report are all the sales
made hy them within thirty days after the respective
release dates of the film.
I am suggesting that you writs this letter,
since 1 think it advisable to have all matters relating
to these posters handled through the Advertising Depart¬
ment, and I would suggest also that the Advertising
Departing o.k. the bill,
C. S'. Scull.
OFS/AHK.
Mr. Horace G. Plimpton,
Edison Studio, Bedford Park,
New York, N.Y.
Dear Sir:-
lir. Dyer has read, and ha8 also asked me to read,
scenario No. 349, entitled "Peg Woffington". We agreed that
this Boenario would give a very oompli cited play, which would
he very difficult for the average moving picture audience to
understaid, Very few probably have read "Peg Woffington" ,
and the relation of the characters is suoh that a motion pic¬
ture could hardly express them. There also seems to be no
particular dramatic situation or climax.
In view of all of this, Mr. Dyer direots me to say
that you should not produce this scenario.
X return the copy of the scenario herewith.
Yours vexy truly,
GFB/AHK
Enos.
Assistant to Vice-President,
April 30, 1910.
Mr. Horace 0. Plimpton,
Edison Studio-Bedford Park,
Ilew York, N.Y.
Dear 8ir:-
M r. Dyer directs me to confirm His statement
to you that He disapproves of the placing of Hiss Ethel
Jewett on the pay-roll of the Studio, and that he desires
to have the making up of muBio cues abandoned.
Yours very truly,
GFS/ATiK.
Assistant to Vice-President,
1
7}
May 2nd ,1910.
Mr. Horace G. Plimpton,
Edison Studio --“edford Park,
Hew York, H.Y.
Pear Mr. Plimpton:-
X hand you herewith copies of
letters from C. S. McNeir, dated April loth and April 29th
and a letter from us to Mr. MoMeir, dated April 26th.
These lettere are self-explanatory.
Mr. By or approves of taking the pictures, please
note the last paragraph in the letter dated April 29th in
regard to making a picture of the blowing up of a vessel^.
It occurred to me that this might be something which
could bej^^pled in minature in the tank after the prin¬
cipal picturee are taken, and 1 should think it would he
sufficient to tell the Kleotrio Boat Company that Buch a
scene might be arranged if the pictures taKen at tyuinoy
would properly lead up to it.
Please note that nothing haB been said in any
of the letters in regard to advertising on these pictures,
//2 Mr Horace G. l5liinpton.
and I think it advisable not to bring up the subject
unless the Electric Boat Company does. 1 do not think
we should go any further than provide a title announcing
that the pictures are of the teBt of the submarine
Salmon, built by the Electric Boat Company of Quincy,
Massachusetts.
Yours very truly,
GES/AHK.
Assistant to Vio e-President,
[ENCLOSURE]
C. S. MoU'.'ir
Attorney at law
Hibbs Building
Washington, D. C. April 16,1910
The Edison Mfg. Company,
Orange, 1T.J.
Gentlemen;
During the coming month trials will he held off
Provincetown, Mass., of the U. S. S. Submarine SALK01T, one
of the most modem submarine boats built for the Havy De¬
partment. This is a large vessel of about 350 tons, some
140 feet in length. I can arrange with the builders of this
vessel to secure exclusive moving picture privileges of the
various trials to which this boat is to be subjected, and
while we realise that such pictures would have a considerable
money value, vre will make no charge for them, but will award
the privilege to the moving picture company which v/ill dem¬
onstrate to us its superior facilities for giving these
pictures the widest possible exploitation throughout the
United StateB, both in regular theatres, moving picture
shows and slot machines. As stated these trials will be
begun during the month of Kay, off Provincetown, Hass. It
may be necessary for the company to whom we award this privi¬
lege to provide itself with a vessel from which to take the
pictures, although it is possible that we could arrange to
permit your operators to come aboard our tender.
I knww the Edison Company is one of the foremost con¬
cerns In the moving picture business and if you will write
me what plans you can make for giving theBe pictures pub-
[ENCLOSURE]
a
lioity throughout the United States, X think I can assure
you of favorable consideration. I need not point out to you
the novelty of such a set of films and the interest they
would excite. The tests will probably include the firing
of a torpedo and the blowing up of an imaginary enemy* s
war vessel, so that the series would be as interesting as
anything now before the public.
Please take this .’natter up promptly and let mo hear
from you.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) C. S. McHoir
[ENCLOSURE]
April 26, 1910.
C. S. McHeir, Esq., ,
HiVb8 Building,
Washington, 1). 0.
Dear Sir:
Yours of the 16th inst. addressed to the
Edison Ma”hfacturing Company has "been referred to Hr.
Dyer, who directs me to say that this Company would he
glad of the opportunity of taking the pictures to which
you refer, provided it can he done with a small amount
of expense. This Company will, of course, provide the
operator and the camera, hut prohahly would he unwill¬
ing to go to the expense of pro7^^^nS a vessel from
which to take the pictures. If you can arrange to have
our camera operator come aboard the tedder, that plan would
he satisfactory.
This Company is operating under the license of
the Motion Picture Patents Company and its films are
shown in prohahly seven-eighthB of the motion picture
houses in the United States. It also has a large'
foreign business through agencies in all of the principal
[ENCLOSURE]
#2 C. S. MoHeir, Esq.
countries in Europe and Australia. If a satisfactory
film is obtained, this Company would place it amongst
its regular releases and you would then have the advant¬
age of the publicity obtained by exhibiting this picture
in all of the best exhibition houses in the United States
as well as abroad.
If you decide to have this Company take the pic¬
tures, please advise Hr. IDyer of the dates of the trial
and provide this Company with the necessary letters to
enable our operator to reach the proper vie\7-point. It
is understood, of course, that this privilege, if extend¬
ed to this Company, will be exclusive, for the picture
would not be of enough importance from an exhibition
standpoint, to warrant more than one Company taking it
and placing it on the market.
Yours very truly,
GES/ABK
Assistant to Vice-President.
^ EDISON MANUFACTURING CD.
EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES AND FILMS.
cy\/wr '^O'/ May
3rd, 1910.
Mr. Geo. F. Scull, Asat. to Vice-President,
Edison Manufacturing Co. , ,
Orange, IT. JT. \\ fe ^
My dear Mr. Scull:- 's—
I have yours of the 2nd in reference to films
of the Submarine Boat at Provincetown , Mass, and note con¬
tents. I am writing the Electric Boat Company, Quincy,
Mass, to-day. I notice that you sent an extra copy of Mr.
McMeir's letter of April 16th also your letter to him of
April 26th. Thinking that these were probably sent inad¬
vertently, I am returning them to you herewith .
Yours very truly,
Kine tograph Dept. ,
'iLM—
i/t^
•oduction.
re/bb
1 RQfi "" ' " y>y^MORANDUM
Hr. Plimpton K'' 5/ C/lG.
In discussing matters generally with J;!r. TJlison ho
made tho following critic! ana ?:tu suggestions as the result of s«
ing our pictures In the theatres. Ho complained of the acting
and said that ’h.e actors were mono or loss stilted and indifferent.
Our crporiorco with tho hiograph actor# that wo hnvo, who mac- a
greet success with the Siograph Company mid who hnvo not done vory
well with us, convinces me that it io not tho actors hut tho pro¬
ducing non that are at fault. Cf course this is a hand criticism
to most, hut hoar it in mind cud he op your people jacked up as much
as possihlo.
Ho also thought that a great deal could he done in what
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ho calls "family dramas". By this ho means plays based on inci¬
dents in roal life roquiring a fow actors and moro or loss simple
soonory. His idoa soomod to ho that plays of this sort arc not
only interesting, hut relatively inoxponsivo. Of c our so wc make
a lot of pictures of tills hind, hut hear this suggestion also in
mind so that V;hon wo put any of Idiom out I oan call his attention
to is^im.
Ho also complained of tho character of handwriting used
in our letters whon projected on tho seroon and said it was diffi¬
cult to read thorn. I ashed Mm what ho thought of our plan, usod
in some cases, of having tho hand writo tho lottor hoforo tho eyes
of tho audionoo. IIo thought that was a good idoa. What objec¬
tion would there ho to using this schome wlionovor wo havo lotters
to writo? It always Doomed to me that tho audionoo took a groat
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interest in this sort of thing, and hosides it has tho advantage
of increasing tho length. If wo used it altogether no doubt
in time there would bo some ooraplaint, but -would there bo any
objection in trying it out for tho time being?
■ MiD/lTO F. If* Xi.
Ihiy 7th, 1010.
John Kush, Bsci. ,
Hepre ogling »a#arl£ Star,
Cono street,
Orange, .T.
Hear Sir;-
Vy attention has bean called tc an article appear¬
ing in the v™ XoiV; Run under date of Fry 0th, stating that
Kr. Edison visited a certain moving picture ahov in Orange,
We./ .Turney and collected certain material for a talk trith
Kr. iVhite who pro aided over the ?, Toying Ploture Department.
I hag t;o inform you (hat X do not preside over
the having Picture ho par teen fc of this Company, and have not
done bo sinoe February 3rd, 1003. You would confer a. per¬
sonal favor toy correcting the statement as printed in (ho
Run.
Tmu-a very truly,
(Signed) J. H. iVhite
^^fiomo»Q(6di»oiu
EDISON MANUFACTURING CD.
MA,N OFFICE AND FACTORY ^oL^T
ORANGE, N.J. ' 1
EDISON PROJECTING KINETDSCDFES AND FILMS.
VvD Ifaj^yrank L. Dyer, Vice-President,
i son Manufacturing Co.,
Orange, IT. J.
Dear Sir:-
Replying to your memorandum #1499 which was received
to-day in reference to the Canadian Pacific Railway trip, Mr. Seay
returned a week ago from his preliminary trip with a great quan¬
tity of photographs and description matter together with the
outline of several scenarios. I should have spoken to you about
this last week had I seen you.
I am at present going over the question of scenarios
with Mr. Dawley and as soon as we have discussed them a little
further I will submit the whole matter to you. I have been corres¬
ponding with Mr. Dennis of the Railroad, ’and he wishes to come Mast to
have a final consultation before the expedition starts. He has
expressed himself as thinking that June 15th was the best time
to leave here.
Replying to your memorandum #1506 which I received to-day.
In reference to the criticisms made by Mr. Edison on our pictures,
of course it would have been much easier to know how to apply these
criticisms had the pictures been designated.
BTe all rightly or wrongly think our
rk has been improv-
- 2 -
ing, and if the pictures which he saw were old ones, I should not
feel so badly about it as if they were more recent. As it is
now, it is hard for me to gather much from the criticisms expressed
but we shall try to useevery possible means to improve the quality
of the acting.
You refer in the memorandum to our experience with
Biograph actors. So far as I remember we have had three such cases.
First - Herbert Prior who is a member of our Stock
Company. It seems to me that his work has been good.
Second - Verner Clarges who worked in a number of our
pictures and who has now gone back to the Biograph
Stock Company. His work while with us seemed to be
satisfactory. A case which stands out was the part
of the School Faster, S queers in "A YORKSHIRE SCHOOL"
which was picked out in the Dramatic Mirror as a par¬
ticularly good piece of acting.
Third - John Cumpson who is the Biograph "Jones" and
who has been posing for us in several comedy picture's
lately. I remember that you did not particularly care
for his work in the first picture called "FORTUNE'S
FOOL". In the picture "MR. BUMPTIOUS ON BIRDS" and
"A TALE OF TiVO COATS" his work seemed to stand out
as satisfactory.
It has been my personal aim since I have been
here to try and improve the quality of acting, as this is a matter
which I think is vital to our success.
In reference to the subjects of a, simple nature, I will
pay particular attention to this matter from now on.
As to letters, we will try making all letters as written
taken in the actual process of writing. Of course this applies
only to letters as they are written and cannot apply to a pro¬
jected letter on the screen which i3 received. It is possible
that some of the difficulty in reading our letters comes from the
fact that we have endeavored to vary them in order to indicate, the
character of the writer.
I
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Some of the other Manufacturers notably Selig
have a uniform script or type which i3 used in all letters. Our moth,
od has been thought to have some individuality, but of course
if a letter is illegible it loses- its entire value.
Yours very truly,
Kinetog
re/bb
(K
sy*K
PATENTED IN
CANADA,
ENGLAND,
FRANCE,
BELGIUM.
IMPROVED;
DIECKEHHOFF, RAFFLOER & CO.,
PRINCIPAL DEPOT:
560-566 BROADWAY,
AUSTRALIA,
PATENTED IN
GERMANY,
AUSTRIA,
ITALY,
SPAIN.
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ntracts are contingent upon strikes, accidents, delays of carriers or. other causes^ipS^oIdabJe et^yond our control.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison, > , A
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Orange, H. J. ^ V £t ' X
. A K^i^f
Acknowledging the receipt of your esteemed flavor of yester /
day, I am very jnuch delighted to road your explanation, of what seem¬
ed to me inexplicable, because- I presumed that you controlled all
the moving picture shows. Would you have any objection,/ if^n
following the matter further along on the lines indicated in my
letter to you^j ^ X had published the correspondence between us?
Possibly the exhibition of the prize fight in moving
picture halls could be squelched quite effectually. Your answer
will greatly interest me, and I shall abide! by your decision*
Yours very truly, |
o (b yffettva-i
cs Aw
/y?a</7’ c rn.. . &<?■ Y‘&r',irjr
Hoy ic, 1910.
Mr. Dyer:-
I need only remark on scenarios wlrich you hare
not o.k.'d, for X agree with you that these o.k.'d scenarios
are satisfactory.
Mo. 351, "The Reconciliation": 1 fail to see any climax to
to this story, or anything whioh appeals to me as being a
dramatic incident. If 1 am not mistaken, thiB story is
taken from Charles Heade's "Put Yourself in His Place", but
the attempt, apparently, has been to condense substantially
the whole book. It also seemB to tne that making the hero
the victim of enemies among union men, is treading on rather
dangerous ground.
Mo. 366. "Two Brothers"; This is a very ordinary story,
but if Ur. Plimpton intends to make a great deal of the
dog I can see that it might readily be a pleasing film.
Mo. 352. "The Martyred Hero?: This story strikes me as
being an unpleasant one in every respect. The oircumstanoes
which would make the burglar fall in lover with the heroine,
doeB not strike me as being very probable, aside from the
desorepency of the necessary ages of the two.
No. 200. "David Connerf ield" : This might make a fair
story, but it certainly should be given no such ambitious
title as "David Copperf ield" , because , be this synopsis
residB, Eavid is a very unimportant factor.
G. Scull.
GI’S/AHK,
I /**./? -Sx/es-
May 24, 1910.
I a.m not at all satisfied with our film and
machine advertising an has been carried on for some time in
the past. Prom some investigation which I have made in the
Advertising Department, it would seem that we are advertising
in practically two classes of paper, one the Index and the
Moving Picture World, whioh circulates exclusively in moving
picture circles, and the other including the Clipper, Tele¬
graph, and Mirror, which circulate in the general amusement
class, and practically not at all in the moving picture class.
Judging from queries which we receive, however, this latter
class is one which we' should reach, especially in reference to
projecting machines, for it includes a great msiy vaudeville
managers and traveling showmen, who from time to time take
up pictures, in which case their first thought is in regard
to the machine. If they are on the road, they are buyers and
not renters of film and are not concerned with the latest
releases, so that a mere line or two, calling attention to
the fact that we feature subjects on our lists suitable for
traveling showmen, is sufficient so far as the film end is
concerned, and we can use the remainder of the space to fea¬
ture the projecting machines. Because of the expense of
the papers covering this class, we are limited in the amount
of space, and for this reason we must elect to either feature
films only or machines only. In this way we would get very
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effective advertising.
In the Index and World, we have a half page each,
and at the presert time we are describing at some length the
releases of the coming week, and also calling attention to
those of the week following, aa well as to any particular
feature film which is still further ahead for release. This
gives our advertising a very solid appearance and one that
is not attractive. Most of the other Manufacturers confine
their advertising to til a- releases of the following week. We
also have been featuring one or two films, and any one read¬
ing the advertisement would readilyi gather the idea that the
unfeatured films are hardly worthy of mention and could read¬
ily cultivate the idea that we simply get out a good one once
in a while instead of malting it a continuous performance.
I believe that it is all right to call attention to certain
subjects which really are of extraordinary interest or im¬
portance or which are to fall on certain noteworthy dates,
such as Decoration Day and Christmas films, but I do not
think it is a good scheme to feature, simply because it is
very good, any film such as the "Princess and the Peasant".
I should, therefore, recommend that we confine our advertis¬
ing to the releases of the next week with an occasional refer¬
ence to some extr asrdinarily important film.
I would also recommend arranging this half page ad¬
vertisement which we have in the Index and in the World, so
that we use a quarter page extending entirely across the page
for our films „ and another quarter, possibly preferably only
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half of the page;to our projecting machines. This latter
arrangement will give a chance for the insertion of cuts of
machine parts, and 1 think it would, he advisable to have a
series of cuts made of large views of individual portions of
the mechanism and from week to week call attention to the
effectiveness of these different parts.
I should add that both Mr. MoChesney and the
Kinetograph Department agree with me in the foregoing, and
if you will authorize me to do so, I will put the above
changes into effect at once.
Hay 26, 1910.
Advertising Department. Kinotograph Department arid files;
It has teen decided that advertising r»in"'the Clipper,
Billboard and Mirror , now being .done 'by the Kin etograph Depart¬
ment, shall be confined almost entirely to projecting machines
and equipment, with a simple statement that we are preparod
to supply feature films particularly adapted for traveling
■showmen.
I’ho advertising in the Index,: World and Kiokelodeon,
is to be equally divided between machines and equipments and
films. The total amount of advertising in each paper is to
be divided equally between these tv/o classes of advertising
and is to be placed on separate pages, where possible. As a
general thing, only the releases of the succeeding week are
to*be mentioned, except that on special occasions or in the
ease of a film noteworthy because of some speoial person or
incident shown therein, advanced advertising may be done.
Machine advertising is to set out more in detail the advanta¬
geous features of the machine, and cuts of enlarged portions
of these details are to be made and used, so that different
features can be boosted in successive issues.
Messrs. Edison & Dyer:-
Conforming with an order of Mr. C. H. Y/ilson
to equip our Kinetosoopes with a chain drive for the film take-up reels
to meet the regulations imposed by the laws of England, I beg to advise
that the model of same has been completed by this Dept, and awaits your
inspection and approval.
This mechanism has been so designed that it may be attached to our
present Underwriter's Model and consists of the following:
A sprocket wheel on drive shaft, taking the place of
present pulley.
A new arm carrying gear and sprocket wheel in place of the
present weighted arm which carries idle belt pulleyB.
Friction gear on wheel shaft in place of present pulley.
The addition of a bracket set-screwed to moving projecting
head of machine for the purpose of carrying a link attached to
above mentioned arm.
. Substitution of chain for present belts.
The only change necessary is the widening and lengthening of slot
in wooden base and table of the above mentioned type.
The drive is adapted for use in either position of the reel box
on Underwriter 's Model - below table and in front of same.
Hr- Rook has mentioned to me several times the idea of
our talcing some action against theatres who are using Independent
service in connection with licensed maohinos. Is there are
reason why action along this line should not,he taken? He says
that the fourteenth Street Theatre , operated "by a man named
Rosenthal or Rosonquont, and also Hamme rate in's 42nd street
Theatre are two places that have/ULoensed machines and are using
Independent films* Personally I do not see why we should not
take some effective aotion< because I doubt very much if those
theatres would care to-be involved in a patent suit.
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July 6, ■ 1910.
We are in reoeipt of a communication from
the Eastman Kodak Company dated June 30, 1910, wherein they
advise the royalties collected up to June 20th amount to
$ 313,008.30 less drawbacks paid § 80,307.63, leaving a net
amount •,>> 232,700.67 which they have credited to our account.
They state that our purchase account after
crediting the above amount of royalty shows a balance still
due them of $ 4,956.06. Upon checking same with our ledger
I find that there is a difference of § 221.81 which we are
unable at the present time to locate owing to the fact that
we have not received their statement as of July 1st. when
we receive same I will immediately have it checked with the
ledger, and I do not doubt but what we will be able to locate
this small difference.
For your information I would advise our
purchases from them during the year as per our ledgers at the
present time amount to $ 342,148.54, of which we remitted to
them in cash during the year § 104,270.00
[ENCLOSURE]
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EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
ROCHESTER, N.Y.
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June 30, 1910.
AWV W:i "
The Edison Mfg. Co.,
'W* / -yr-
Orange, N. J. /
Gentlemen:- / \
/ '
Your Merchandise Account to June 19th, 1910, inclusive, after
crediting your remittance of June 18th, 812-^70.00, received on June 20th,
ehows a balance in our favor of $4,956.06 after applying thereon the
royalties collected on Cine Film sales to that date, under contract be¬
tween Edison Mfg. Co. and/or Motion Picture Patents Co. and the Eastman
Kodak Company, as per details below.
New York Merchandise Account A 18 666 02
New Jersey 11
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Amount of Royalties collected $313,008.30
Drawbacks paid 80.307 .6 3
Balance due Eastman Kodak Company
$237,656.73 / ;
which we should be glad to receive in order to balance the account to
above date.
Yours truly,
232.700.67
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It-- dear llaclomo:-
Your favor of tho 9th Is at hand. Our ont ire
negotiations with you last Pall woro based upon our scour¬
ing for the poriod of ono year, with tho option of m o:c-
tonslon for another yonr, your oxoluslve services In motion
picture work, it was tho basis of all of tho conversations
botwoon you and. me and. was the spirit of my letter to you of
October 6, 1909 and your reply of October 8, although not
specifically; mentioned. Y/o announced in the ICinotogram of
ITovombar lot which I pro sumo you foad that wo had conoludod
arrangements with you by which wo wore to have tho exclusive
uso of your services and in the same number there apponrs an
article over your signature in which you refor to tho fact that
you are glad to hc.vo associated yourself wit h tho Edison Com-.”
pony. Horcovor in your letter to mo of Ootobor 7, 1909 you
refor to your "salary11 which surely implies exolusivo work.
You told me in the beginning that you load obtained onpeoial por
mission from Ur. Butlor Davenport to work for us (soo your lot-
tor to no of October 5) and that this work would ho, to to be arranged
not to oonfliot with your ongagemont to him. Slius thoro can be no
roal question as to tho exolusivonoss of your serTicos.
‘As to tho mount which you claim as duo you I do not find
that vra owe you anything at th.o preaont tino. So far as ray letter
of October Oth and your reply of October’ Cth aro concomod it in
distinctly stated, and acknowledged by you as satisfactory, that you
woro to bo paid S500 por picture mid wo hold your rocoipts in full
for work in oaoh picture . However X did toll you, after tho conclu¬
sion of the contract and in annwor to your exproGsod foar tha.t you
might bo called upon to work on osoooslvo number of days, that wo
would toko an txvovaQO of five days as tho basis of the work and that
if, at the termination of tho contract torn, wo found that tho thao
had aggregatod more than tint {that is to say a total of 30 days for
sin pioturos) wo should be glad to adjust it. This we will stand to
and if, after tho conclusion of tho ninth pioturo under tho contract,
■vra find that your work has oovorod a longer total period than 30
days wa shall bo liappy to reimburse you for tho excess timo at the
rato of $100 por day.
Yours very truly,
Edison Manufacturing Co.,
ICinetograph Dept . ,
Mgr., Negative Production.
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Mmo . Pilar -Morin,
22 Woot 109th St, root,
How. Yor ]■: City.
My dear lladnao:-
Your letter of the lath inst. is at hand. Uy
lottor to you of July 11th fully explained the position of
thio Company in relation to your sorvloos and wo hayo noth-
inG to acid to it. If you wish to adlioro striotly to the
agroemont as writ ton and aoooptod wo ahall do tho oraio and
v/o stand ready to complete tho remaining two pictures to
finish the contract at tho prloo as spocified. If TjDwevar
you oaro to approaoh th.o vflaolo nubj oot in a more fr fondly
spirit it will give us pleasure t o.adj ust matters at the end
of tho year as already indioated, 'N'
Yours very truly,
Edison Manufacturing Co.,
ICinot ograph Dopt . ,
llgr., negative Production,
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Hr.. Horace G. Plimpton,
Edison Studio-Bedford Park,
- ■ ■ jiew York, K.Y.
Bear p'ir
I hund you herewith a statement prepared by
V.r. Parrel! , showing sales of motion pictures abroad,
and I think you will find this very instructive. Ad¬
mitting that the foreign taste is different from' the
American taste, yet 1 think this list is probably more
nearly representative of . the ao.tuai merit of our films
than could be determined by orders obtained in this
country. What I mean by this iB that abroad filmed are
ordered by the exchanges entirely on their merits and
although the exchanges may make mistakes, they probably
know just about what their patrons want. In this country
owing- to , the artificial conditions surrounding the busi¬
ness, the question of merit or demerit of a particular
film has but little influence on the sales, hales drop
off:only afte^ a continued run of bad films and sales
increase only ufter a continued run of good films. Bear¬
ing these facts in mind 1 think you will obtain from this
list a very good indication of what fiims to avoid and
//,2- Hr. Horace G. Plimpton.
what to concentrate on in the future. Of course the
saleB of recent subjects do not count very much, but
I presume a good average will be Bhown up to the end
of Hay.
Yours very truly,
XLiyARK. Vice-President.
Enc.
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August 19, 1910
Ur. Horace G. Plimpton,
Edison Studio-Bedford Park,
H.Y.O. •
Bear to. Plimpton
Replying to your memorandum of the
17th' inot. 1 wish you would consider thesa figures care¬
fully and see if they give any definite information as .
to the type of pictures to he auoided and the type of
pi ctures to he made. 1 confess that from a superficial
view 1 cannot discover any key to the problem. Some of
the pictures that sell poorly v/e knew were poor, but why
such pictures as "Why Girls Leave Home", "Frankenstein",
"The Egyptian Uystery", "Little Sheppad of Tumbling Run",
and "Rural Tragedy", should sell so poorly and other
pictures like "It Pays to Advertise", "The House of Cards",
"The Uan Under the Bed", and "That Girl of Dixon* s" should
sell much better, is more than 1 can make out. At any
rate, I wiBh you would look into the matter carefully and
try to form some general conclusion as to the situation.
Yours very truly,
ELD/ ARK. Vice-President.,
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E^fujma&ttEdiaon-
EDISUN MANUFACTURING CO.
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PROJECTING KINETDSEDPES AND FILMS.
niCT.TtD QUSINC&S
/August 22nd., 1910.
SALES EggARTlMT BULLETIN HO.
TRADE INFORMATION MR DEALERS.
Correspondence oonoerning tills bulletijf should mention its
number and he addressed to Edison Manufao^ring Company,
Kinetograph Department , Orange, N. T.
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We are now able to quote some aj^ractive prices on Limes
for Calcium Light. The follov&pg should merit your careful c
sideration. 1
7/8" LIM^ IN CANS
Brice - - - - - - - - -#• - - / - $1.00 per doz. (12 limes to a can)
In Lots of 24 Cans - 1 - - / - .75 " can net,
In Lots of 72
In Lots of 144 " - - - .65
7/8" LIMES IN GLASS TUBES
List Price - - - $1.50 per doz. (12 Limes to a box)
In Lots of 12 Boxes (144 Limes) - 1.15 " box net,
In Lots of 24 " (288 » )- - 1.10 " " "
In connection with Limes 1-1/4", special prices on these
will be quoted on a application, mentioning the quality desired.
Hoping to be favored v/ith your orders, we remain,
Very truly yours,
EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANX.
^^Rom^CLEdaoiu
EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE. N.J.
EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCDPES AND FILMS.
SALES DEPARTMENT BULLETIN HO. 79
TRADE INPORMATION EOR DEALERS .
Correspondence concerning this bulletin should mention its
number and be addressed to Edison Manufacturing Company,
Kinetograph Department , Orange, N. J. y'
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Regarding our new style film reel, which/ you have no doubt
noticed in our ads. in trade papers, will stsfte that we are
prepared to supply these reels to the trade JCt the following
prices and in the quantities mentioned: J
List Price - - - - / - 75/
In Lots of 25 - - / - 45/ Net
In Lots of 50 - - — / - 40/ Ret
In Lots of 100 to 400 - - - / - - -37-1/2/ Net
In Lots of 500 or over - / - y - 35/ p-et
It is understood that wlv*n quoting these prices no orders
will be accepted for package/ of kfess than 100 on orders for 100
and over at the prices indi/ated/and that quantities under 100,
reels will be packed in lot h ofy£5's and 50 's at the prices quoted.
You will find that thfi particular features about this reel
are - its fireproof qualit^/being all metal) , durability (no screws
being used, which usually become lost, rendering the reel useless)
accessibility when threading film and no springs to bend, break or
lose.
We believe that this reel should particularly appeal to you,
as it will out wear any other make, therefore, making the cost con¬
siderably less than the reels now in use. We will 'be pleased to re¬
ceive a trial order.
EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Aug. 30, 1910.
Several of the "boys of this Department, as well as my¬
self, made a trip to Newark last night, visited most of the mov¬
ing picture houses and have the following to report on the films
shown : ..
There were twenty-four (24) theatres visited, of
which fifteen (15) were licensed and nine (9) were
Independent theatres. Of the films shown forty-four
(44) were Licensed, including nine (8) Edison. The
Edison films shorn were as follows:
Title Release Date
100$ Jealousy . . . Mar, 2,1909
The Other Fellow or A Fight for Love - - May 13, "
The Interrupted Joy Ride ----- — - 11 13, "
The House of Cards - -- -- -- -- -- Dec. 10, 11
Lazy Farmer Brown- -------- - - Jul. 22,1910
A Frontier Hero- - - - - n 22, 11
Peg Woffington ------------- " • 22, "
The Lady and the Burglar -------- Aug. 9, "
In the Independent theatres no Licensed Edison films
would he shown. You will note from the above that the total num¬
ber of Licensed films seen is forty-four (44), of which eight
(8) subjects were Edison, or 18-1/6/2.
For your further information, would say that the new
Edison reels released weekly are two (2) out of a total of
twenty-three (23) Licensed reels, or 8-2/3^.
From the above you will see that of the Edison films
shown last night in Newark, we had more than double our share.
If you wish any additional information of this character
we will be pleased to obtain it at any time you request.
films to Australia from here, a subject we discussed during- my
visit, because on my return here I heard that Gaumont is not
quite satisfied with the present arrangement; he has now formed
his new demands in a letter, dated September 22nd, about which
I promised to give him our decision by end of October.
You will note that in addition to the increase of
the charge for titles from Fr.l- to Pr.l.SO per meter, he wants
to increase, from January 1st, the price of the'positive print
from* 13i Cents t0;jl4j- Cents per meter; the latter price, however,
1 I b tf'i
to include tinting of virage, wherever we want it. I cannot
ascertain what the average portion of the tinted filmB is, but
bOf of
assuming that/the total length is supplied tinted, then we have
so far paid Gaumont 13 l/5 Cents per meter, to average tinted
against untinted filmB. Gaumont now asks 14-J- Cents, provided
not more than one third of total length supplied is tinted. The
. . ,
October 4th 19X0
Frank L. Dyer, Esq: _2-
difference would he as follows: we have so far paid Gaumont on
positive prints 4 Cents_,per foot, including tinting, and he
demands that from January 1st we pay him 4 l/Z Cents per foot,
and for tinting and virage over and above one third of the total
length supplied an extra charge of 2 Centimes for tinting and
4 Centimes for virage per meter.
Do you consider this difference big enough to take a
declining standpoint and wait whether he will come back with
the old terms? And if need be, would you see any advantage in
supplying us films from your factory at these prices? And are
you equipped for it? If not, I think we should not quibble
about it, although I will endeavour to make him reduce that
figure to 70 Centimes. I will also then have to insist on a
change in that clause of the agreement which refers to the
notice and have it changed to a longer period, say 6 months or
more, because 3 months is a very short time to effect serious
changes, if they become necessary.
Under these circumstances I thought it wisest not to
tamper with the present Australian arrangement. I also see
from a letter I received from Mr.Wyper, written in response to
a letter dictated by Mr. Stevens while I was in the StateB, that
he cannot fully concur with all our suggestions, but the Gaumont
difficulty was the first reason that made me refrain from
tampering with the present arrangement; and the second reason
was the other alternative arrangement which we discussed and
which, shortly after the first change had been effected, would
October 4th 1910
Frank 1. Dyer, Esq: _3-
require another change. The first proposed change that I told
in a cable
Mr. Stevens /had not yet been enforced was that we should supply
the Australian Office's requirements with Gaumont prints from
here. The second change to follow thereafter mas to supply the
London buyers here on the spot, provided there is any advantage
in it for all concerned. The latter I have had since then in¬
vestigated and I found out for certain that the Australian film
buyers here in London buy their films at the full list price
(providing such concessions which we have made in the case of-
West in the form of a rebate on certain quantities) . pay their
own freight and Australian custom duty. They get their films
delivered from all makers weekly on a fixed day, and ship all
the weekly programmes to Australia in one lot. We are the only
firm with whom they have to make an exception, and this 1b
naturally a great bother to them. They of course are not par¬
ticularly anxious to buy and go to all the extra trouble, if
they can get similar subjects from other manufacturers delivered
to their office in one lot for weekly shipment, as they prefer
simplicity in handling the film programmes to the gain of freight
and custom duty, which it seems is no object to them at all.
I have had a talk on the same point with two manufacturers who
told me that they are doing a very large business with Australia,
and they also confirm what I have said about custom duty etc. and
weekly deliveries to the London buyers.
Now you know that I do not want to tread on anybody's
toes, least of all Bhould X wish to fall out with Mr. Stevens of
Trank L.Dyer, Esq:
October 4th 1910
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whom I am particularly 'f ond and whom I highly esteem, and I am
quite willing to come to any arrangement he may think necessary
in order to protect the interests of his department; nothing is
farther from my mind than any aggrandisement of territory, hut
the film situation being such as it is I am bound to inform you
thereof. We are the only people handling the Australian film
deliveries in the manner we do at present; this is considered
exceptional by the buyers, does not fit on their routine work,
requires extra treatment on their part, and it is safe to ub
that we are getting thereby less orders than we otherwise might
get.
Yours very truly,
MANAGING DIRECTOR
[ENCLOSURE]
.Translation of letter from Messrs. Gaumont addressed to the
Trench Office, dated September 22nd 1910.
After having examined your accounts up to this date,
we regret to inform you that we do not see our way to continue
to print for you the negatifs under the conditions now prevail¬
ing. The principal cause for raising the net coBt price,
which we have foreseen, lies both in the demands which you have
made on us on several occasions and in the extreme division of
your orders.
We therefore beg to inform you that, in accordance
with clause 6) of our contract, we cancel same to-day, for the
1st of January next (that is in three months).
After that date we could only execute your orders on
the following conditions, and we would ask you to inform us of
your decision as soon as possible, so that we can make our
arrangements accordingly:
1) Tor the composition of titles and sub-titles, the textes
of which are furnished us by you in all languages and type¬
written, the price will be Tr.1,50 instead of Tr.l-j it is
understood that the length of negatifs and positifs for these
titles and sub-titles will be continued to be invoiced to you
at the price indicated below for films. ^
2) Tor each meter of poBitif the price will be Tr.0;72, it
being understood that this price will include from now the virage
and tinting( teintage) , if there is any. This latter work will
therefore no longer necessitate an increase, and in this manner
hot only the accounts will be simplified but also the charge
which we make on the price per meter, and which is very moderate
[ENCLOSURE]
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will in this way he considerably reduced. However, the parts
viraged and tinted (vireeset teintees) must not exceed one
third of the length of the film . Apart from this proportion-
we will apply the prices fixed in the agreement at present in
force, that is Fr.0,02 per meter for tinting and :Fr.0,04 per
meter for virage.
3) . The time ‘of delivery of orders will he 10 days maximum; it
is understood that we will do our best to deliver within 5 days,
particularly in case of repeat orders, hut without formal en¬
gagement on our part. The virage and tinting might cause a
delay of three dayB.
The time of delivery on the other hand to he counted
only from the moment when we are in possession of all the docu¬
ments necessary for the complete execution of the order.
4) Lastly, we would like to see settlement of our statements
effected more promptly, that is in conformity with the stipu¬
lated conditions which were particularly precise on this point.
If an error should he committed in the statements, or, for some
reason or other, we should not agree, it would surely he possible
for you to advise us within the 15 days! stipulated. Any such
reason can therefore not he considered as a pretext to defer
payment/far less any other reasons like those that have been
given us up to the present.
We would ask you to pleaBe Bubmit these our proposi¬
tions to Mr. Thomas Graf and to let us have hiB reply as soon
as possible.
0. F.
Got. 36, 1910.
Ur- Thonao Graf, ^Managing Dlrootor,
Kdiaon Manufacturing Oo.,
London, If. b’.
Soar Gir :
~j'13j:10 ln ?arilD Qncl delivery In London for
Hr.' Lyor duly rcooivod youro of Cot. 4th, end aftor looking
into our coot of production end capacity, no finally dooidod to con-
tinuo tho arrongoraont with Caumont undor tho hoot torno uhleh you
oould obtain - not to osoood thooo' of your lottor, and lir. Syor cabled
you accordingly yoctorday.
Itr. Stovona io in Morcloo, at tho prooont timo and will not rotum
for oovoral nooko, and ao lir. lyor took up tho quootiono in roforonoo
to fllno for Auotralia with Ur. Roiohort, who io in chargo of tlio
Foreign Bopt. in hr. Stovon'o ahoonoo, and rayoolf, no dooidod that it
v/ould ho beet to havo tho Auotralian fllno printod in ’’ario and
dolivorod to tho London buyoro, ao outlinod in your lottor. In ordor
that thoro aliould bo no conflict in tho ohlpmonto from Orongo and from
London, no havo dooidod that no nould dofor until tho film roloaood
by uo on ITov. lot, "Tho Roy of Lifo", boforo making tho ahango. For
that filn and ell onbcoqucnt thoroto, you 'nill ploaoo aocopt ordoro
for Auotralia, and liavo tho fllno urintod by Gaunont and dolivorod
dirootly to tho buyoro in London, ao outlinod in your lottor. All
ordoro proviouo to that dato aro to bo cabled to uo and fillod fron
Orango, ao horotoforo. •
Tho Foreign Popartmont lioro liao juot oloood and ordor nith J.
B. Vttlliano Arauoonont Co., 610 Goorco Ctroot, Gydnoy, If. 3. V.'.
Auotralia, for ono print of oaoh of our filno. Beginning nith "Tuo
Koy of Lifo” you ohould havo nado ono print of all filmo to fill thia
ordor, making Bhipnonto thoroof from London on tho oano otoanoro nhioh
nill bo uood by tho London buyoro for other Auotralian purohaooro.
Tliio muot bo done, of oouroo, oo that J. B. v-llliamo will not rocoivo
thoir fllno olthor in advanoo or aftor tlio othor Auotralian purchnooro
roooivo thoiro. If you nill bill thooo filno to tho Auotralian offioo
tho lattor mil attend to tho oollootion of all oliargoo.
In ordor that Mr. iVypor may bo lcopt Infornod of uhat io being cold
in Auatrolla, it vdll bo advioablo to Bond him,. from t'imo to tirao.
tlio purehaaoa redo for Auotrdlian partloo. 2hio rd.ll onablo him to
troco any irrocularitioa and bo in a pooition to .ononor any comlainto
nMch my bo mdo. to him. *
At tho present tino, tho foreign Sopt. baa tho follouine ordoro
for poouoro ±or Auatralien film buyora for oaob filn auppliod to thorn:
boot, G oaob; lullor, G oaob; Y/illlaraa, G oaob; Sponoor, 10 each ond
mrrincton 1G oaob. V/o proauna that yonr purohaao# of poators from
tho iidvortioinfj bopt. a±e oufficionb to covor thooo ordora. if it la
not, you will, of oouroo, have amplo tire to incrcaoo your ordor boforo
tbo roloaoo of tbo "JSoy of Lifo".
?loano note aloo that nlPBno or more of any film crub, loot &no
ordered by Mr. boot, ono of thaoa abould bo forwardod to ’’Viaata'1
lOneo 1’hoatro, v/ollinoton, II. and tlio balanoo to Mr. v/oot at
' u* Undoubtedly tho buyor for Mr. boot will teto coro
o-x this, but no thought it r/oll to oall your attention to it.
Youro vory truly.
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Mr. C. to^lson , General Mgr., i\ ; c- 0 yi
Edison Manufacturing Co. jX^V ’ / ^ [i
I have your letter of the 5th v/ith enclosure froi
Cha3. S’. Pope which I i
i returning herewith. I presi
Mr. Pope is taking this means of notifying the Manufacturers of
Motion Pictures that Mme. Pilar-Morin is free to engage in the ’
I understand from what X have heard that her produotii
mt Prodigue " has been i
; be inclined to think that her employment by any
price for her servici
i of the manufacturers would pay t
We have gotten the adver-
that she will be particu-
l part which particularly suited her.
’ and make a deal for that particular picture
Yours very truly,
Kinetograph Dept.,
[ENCLOSURE]
dip (lluti'rpi'rsi's
Edison Mfg. Oo
10 Fifth Avo.,
lTew York City.
Door Sir:-
Aftar the pros ant woolc Mine. Pilar-Morin will
bo at liberty for motion piotures.
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EDI50N-EE5ELLSCHAFT m.b.h.
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ABTEILUNG FOR KINETOSCOPE UND FILMS.
FRIEDR ICH5TR. 10.
Prank I. Dyer , "Esq. President,
Pdison ?'anufacturlng Company,
Orange , Hew .Tersey.
Pear Mr. Dyer,
^November 7th 1910
(K
Hr.JTichols of Varkt h Co. representing the American
Biograph Company, Lubin and others, has met mo several times at
luncheon when we have been talking over the European film situation
generally, and X have endeavoured to find out what he is doing.
He seems to be anxious to corner all American films and wants to
get our agency. I have shown him, however, that the business he
could give us would not pay us for the transfer, because we are
doing more business now in our films in "England than he is doing
with any of t.he products of his manufacturers, excepting of course
the American Biograph Company, in whose -films he is doing a larger
business than we are doing in ours, because he is obtaining from
the Biograph Company a greater number of subjects for choice than
we are offering, but alBo this will be changed very soon after we
have commenced publishing three reels weekly. He obtains the
films at 3d per foot, we obtain practically 4d, and the expenses
in connection with our film department, as T pointed out to you
before, are exceedingly small. In London we have a departn&ii4
manager, one operator, and one stenographer, whose salaries amount
to approximately L9.0.0. per week all the year round. To this we
have to add printed matter and postage which we send out every
7. November 1910
"Frank L.Byer, EBg.
fortnight In the form. of a "TCinetogram" , "but, our expanses do not
exceed L15.0.0 per week, so that any transfer would yield us
lees profits on the films than we have now. of course we have
not considered rent, "but an we have the lease for the "building,
the rent would "be the same whether we handle the films ourselves
or whether we transfer them to somebody else. ,:,he proportion
of rent for the floor occupied by the film department would work
out at L2.o.n per week.
hr. Nichols told me that he is going to the States In
the near future, and no doubt he le going to see you, as he is
most anxious to got our representation. T have held out no
hopes to him, but I have told him that T would be willing to
arrange to have him work for us in countries where he has a re¬
presentation and where we are not working at present as regularly
as we do in England, Germany, Austria, "Russia etc., and X pointed
out to him Spain, we are selling in Spain 4 to 6 copies at
present, which is not much, , but he thinks that he could not
guarantee that, number, because hie agent is not yet very well
introduced there, and the highest he could reach would be four
copies. Tinder these conditions of course it would not be
satisfactory to let him work Spain.
''’o give you an idea what Hr. Nichols is doing, I would
say that he is doing very well indeed in England, and with the
Bioscope films he is doing better in England than wo are doing,
for the reasons above stated, but we have for the laet few months
made such advances in England, and I think we are doing very
nearly ae much as is being done in the Biograph films , although
November 7th 1910
■Frank L.Nyer ,Fsq. -3-
they release a greater number of subjects for choice. Still ho
is ahead of us there. As far as the Continent is concerned we
are decidedly ahead of any of the American makers in the countries
where we are v/orking. The chief Continental place for the
business is Berlin, and here we are doing better business than
Mr .Nichols or any other American representative. I think we are
doing a better business here than any other manufacturer, except
Bathe, who is doing more here than we are doing. In Spain we
sell more films than Mr. Nichols representative could sell, in
Italy he is not yet represented, but also we have not yet been
successful in establishing methodical work there. In Russia he
has recently opened an office, but we are very well represented
there in three places. In France and Belgium he is not repre¬
sented, while we are doing a comparatively small business all
that is at present possible down there. ThuB a transfer would be
less profitable, and if he were to give us the sane profit we are
obtaining now Mr .Nichols would have to give us a very much larger
ourBelves
business than that which we/ shall be able to obtain here, and
you will have seen that our turnover is considerably increasing.
The London figures are in your possession! they are not at hand
here. The Berlin figures for the last 6 months were as follows:
May . 97,715 feet
.Tune . 142,640 ■
.Tuly . 90,053 "
August . . 118,584 "
September..... 199,207 "
October . 131..085 11 Total 779,284 feet
Furthermore , in consideration of the cylinder situation it would
not do to transfer the profitable and paying and of the business
to somebody else . I shall therefore be glad if you will give Mr.
Edlson-dcsellschaft m. b. H., Berlin SW. 48
Abtelluoff (Qr Klnetotcope und Film*.
Prank L.Dyer , Esq.
November 7th 1910
PicholB no hope other than that you refer him to tae to discuBs
a pooBlble representation in territories where we are not working
at present. Should you, however, come to consider a transfer,
then T would ask you not to forget me, as I am just as willing and
able to make a big sum of money for you and for myBelf as 7ft*. Nichols
and I am in a position to put up any reasonable guarantees which
you may think necessary. T shall also be glad if you will avoid
negotiations as definite or nearly as definite as in -che case of
Nr. Carter of Bradford, because on my return, although absolute
secrecy had been assured me from the other side, various people
in the trade telephoned to me , asking whether it is true that we
Intend giving up our film business in England, and if so, whether
we would not see our way to consider the inquiry over the telephone
etc. Inquiries we re also made of some of my people, and these
things create a temporary uncertainty, and there ie no need for
me to point out that this is very undesirable .
I repeat: Should you consider for some reason or other
a transfer of this branch of the business, I should be glad if you
and Itr .Edison will not forget me. As the business is continuing
to develop, there is a lot, of money in it, and I should be just
as pleased to make it as any outsider, and T am able to furnish
you any guarantee which you think necessary.
Yours very truly,
NAHAGIHCx DIRECTOR
’i 503 " i r/tify memorandi
1° Vs? ■
Ur. Gall:- '
November 17,1910.
He gar ding tho Edison projecting machine that is
installed in the office of the Motion Picture Patents Company,
it is very important that thi3 machine at all times should
make a good impression. All of the licensed films are exhi¬
bited on this machine before the Censor Board, and representa¬
tives of all the Manufacturers aro.thoro to see the films run.
Anything in the why of a poor exhibition is, therefore, to
be avoided. I stiggosted to Mr. Pelzer that you or some one
familiar with the machine, should go in from time to time to
see that it iB in proper running order. Mr. Pelzer sent me
a memorandum today, suggesting that you go in on Friday and
Monday mornings of every week, so as to be there on those
mornings when the machine is being run. I don’t think you
can tako tho time to do this, but if possible, you ought to
go in at least on one of these days every other week, so tho
machine will be kept in constant repair. There ought also
to bo an extra head at the Patents Company, so that if any-
, thing goes wrong with ono of tho meohanisms, tho other one
fa - Mr. Gall.
oan be substituted. I boliove thore is an extra head there
but you want to satiBfy yourself on this point. If you
, i y°u cannot spare tho time to go, lot mo know
and I will arrange to have some one else attend to this
mat tor.
FID/AKK.
F. 1. D.
Mr* Horace &. Plimpton,
Production Mgr. -15 Olson Studio,
Bedford Park, H,.Y. 0.
Dear Sir:-
- Your letter of the, 7th ilist, to Mr. Wilson
in rofercncc to Madame Pilar- Morin has beon referred
to me. If you have a chance to use her in any par¬
ticular picture, I think you should do so-, Because
she undoubtedly has personal abilities for our partic¬
ular work. 1 think you wore quite right in not enter¬
taining the idoa at this timo of malting any do finite
contract with her for an extended period.
Yours vory truly.
FLD/AEK..
Vico- ■‘'resident.
Mr. Thomas Graf,.
IVillcsden .Junction,
London, E. 0. , England.
Dear Mr. Graf
Your favor of the 7th inst. has been
received in reference to the talk you have had with Mr.
Hichols on the subject of repi-osonting us in England and
elsowhore for our moving pictures. All the reports that
I have boon getting from you indicate that the film bus¬
iness is developing very satisfactory in Europe and I
assume that substantially all the filmB you are obtaining
from Caumont aro boing sold and that you are successful in
malting collections. Undor the circumstances, therefore,
this business ought to show up very profitably at the
end of the year and I think wo would be showing bad judg¬
ment in viow of those facts, to make the change at this
tirao. Therefore, in cose Mr. Hiohols calls to see me, I
will not give him any oncouragement, nor will I make any
tentative arrangement with him a3 was done in the case of
Mr. Carter. Yfhon Mr. Cartor oallod to see me , ho had a
proposition that was reasonably attractive, since it meant
■ I .. '
#2 - Mr. Ihomas Graf.
a guarantee a3 to a minimum amount of film -ana tho price
was also satisfactory, hut we have alroaay had offers from'
Messrs. Marfct & Company, whioh have been far from satisfac¬
tory. As I recall it, they agreed only to tako a minimum
of 40,000 foot for a month in Great Britain, whioh would he
very much loss than we are actually selling, and their price
was also, I think, only three cents per foot. Of course, the
development of tho film business is very satisfactory, ana
I am glad that you have had this opportunity of minimizing
other linos of your work. 1 boliovo, however* that there
aro oven greater opportunities in the future for tho film
business, ana if it is pushed as hard as possible that you
will bo surprised to what proportions it can be made to
grow. In the Uni tod States* for example * we arc soiling
more film than wo ovon darod to dream of two or thro c years
ago, and everything points to still further incroases in tho
business.
In your letter reforring to tho reason why Biograph
films aro so popular in Groat Britain, you say that there
are "a greater number of subjects for. choice than wo are
offoring". I do not understand this statomont, because the
Biograph .poopio aro issuing only two reels per week, and
almost without exception tho picture ocoupios the entire
reel. In other words, so far as ’ opportunities for choice
#3 - Mr. Ehomas Graf.
are concerned, we are practically issuing almost twice as
many subjects as the Biograph Company,, and when the throe
reel per week arrangement is put into effect in Groat
Britain, the opportunities for oholco will be almost three’
timos as much. I wish, therefore, that you would a
note of this point.
By the way, the films of the Vi tagraph Company
are becoming very popular in this country. V/hat is the
general opinion of these films in Great Britain, and also
on tho Continent? As I told you whon you wore here last
summer, I am particularly interested in the film business,
and 1 hope, therefore, you will keep mo fully advised as’ to
its progress under your charge.
Yours very truly,
FID/ ARK. Vice-President.
t/Sftomnicisiiacn
EDISON MANUFACTURING CD. LTD.,
FREJECTINE KINETOEEnPES AND FILMS.
EDISON WORKS,
Willesden Junction, S!
c=^Jonc/(?'/
'.07V. MW-
Deo. 3rd, 1910.
E. L. Dyer Esq., President,
Edison Manufacturing Co.,
Orange, S..T.
&
Dear Sir,
I am under the impression that when Mr. Graf was last at
Orange the matter of film sales in South Afrioa was discussed, and
it was decided that we could handle such business from London.
Before Mr. Graf left recently for the Continent he instructed me
to confirm an arrangement which he had made with Messrs. Eilms Ltd.
of London whereby, beginning January 1st., we were to give them a
trial period of three months, during which time they were to pur¬
chase from us one sample of every subject issued to be shipped to
South Afrioa, we on our part undertaking during that period not to
make other shipments to South Afrioa. I was on the point of con¬
firming this arrangement when I learned from Mr. Smith, who has
oharge of our Eilm Department, 25, Clerkenwell Road, that he had re¬
ceived a call from a representative of the South African Film Syn¬
dicate, who stated that his principals held a contract Bigned by
E^D. Martin giving them the sole agency for all Edison films in
South Africa, beginning with films released in America on Deoember
P» I». Dyer Bag.
-2-
2nd. Mr. Smith informs me that the South African Pilm Syndicate's
representative produced a letter received from his principals in
America advising him that suoh an arrangement had teen completed
and what makes me inclined to think that there may he some truth
in his statement is the fact that he mentioned the agreement being
signed by Mr. E. D. Martin during the absence of Mr. Walter Stevens
in Mexico.
Presuming his statement to he oorreot, it would appear that
some misunderstanding exists in regard to the South African film
business, and it appears to me that we should cause complication by
having two exclusive agents - one appointed in New York and one at
London; consequently, I am withholding my confirmation to Messrs.
Pilms Ltd. until I hear from you. The arrangement would not in any
case commence before January 1st., so that there is no necessity to
Bend this confirmation immediately, hut as I an daily expecting them
to aek fur it, 1 should, like to hear from you at the earliest poss¬
ible moment. Perhaps you will be good enough to cable me exactly
on receipt of this letter, either “Proceed", by which 1 ehall under¬
stand that I can confirm Mr. Graf's arrangement, or "Suspend", by
which I shall understand that X am to hold up the confirmation until
hearing further from you by letter.
1910. Motion Pictures - Censorship (D-10-46)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
activities of the National Board of Censorship of Motion Pictures. Included are
letters between Charles Sprague Smith, executive chairman of the National
Board, and Frank L. Dyer, vice president of the Edison Manufacturing Co.,
concerning censorship activities, the exhibition of films on Sundays, and the
use of motion pictures for educational purposes. There are also numerous
reports that "pass," "condemn," or require modifications in individual films,
along with a statement of receipts and disbursements for the period June 1909-
May 1910.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include reports by the National Board and printed eulogies
regarding Smith, who died on March 30, 1910.
THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE
318 EAST FIFTEENTH STREET
Jan. 15, 1910.
Mr. Dyer,
Edison Mfg. Co. ,
10 - 5th Ave. ,
City.
My dear Mr. Dyer;-
Thcre are two natters that I want to bring
to your attention. The first 'is, the Selig film which
pictured "Opium Smoking"and was condemned just before
we had our misunderstanding, which has gone out and in
Brooklyn is being; exhibited, we are informed, as the
Elsie Cigel story. The film is being sharply criticised
by Brooklyn folk, and we have been called upon to give
information aa to how such a film escaped us, and what
we advise should be done in the matter.
The other matter is, the report by my local
inspector on a Pathe film with the subject "Carmen",
a thoroughly excellent film so far as artistic work
and treatment of the subject is concerned, but one
of which the story might occasion comment and criti¬
cism on the part of the hypercritical, and this par¬
ticular film has been singled out for an advertise¬
ment that accompanies it, "Approvedb.by' the National
THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE
318 EAST FIFTEENTH STREET
DEPARTMENTS
Mr j|§i -R- .Tan. 15,1910.
3oard of Censorship''. I presume however, that this
is the work of the loeal exhihitor rather than of the
^athe Company. While this Ad. is a minor matter, it is
clearly unwise that such advertisements should he used,
because the natural tendency v/ould he to attach them to'
those subjects which were the most risques, and the re¬
sult of that would be to tend to discredit gradually
the censorship.
'"ill you please take such steps in both these
matters as seem wise to you/**
Sincerely,
— s.
Us*>cs£- -e<
Charlo s Spraguo Smith, rise.,
S1Q EaBU Fif toenth St . ,
IIow York City.
Dear Hr. Smith:
Your favor of the 15th inst. has boon received
in reference to tho Solig and Patho Films roforroa to.
Of course, I am sorry that this particular com¬
plication has arisen, but it is die to the fact that those
particular pioturos wore put out during tho time that tho Board
of Censors was not passing upon our films.
I do not soo how anything con ho dono , but sinoe
tho films are rolatlvoly short-lived, and thoir interest quiok--
ly dies out, I fool sure that tho difficulty will soon adjust
itsolf.
To tako up tho matter at tho present time with
those manufacturers would probably only result in friotion,
sinoe I do not Imow of any possible way by which the pictures
oon be recalled.'
Yours very truly,
Vioo Prosidont,
THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE
January 31, 1910.
I telephoned -as you requested- to Washington, to your
representative there, and defined to him the position that The
People's Institute had taken with regard to Sunday amusements
in general and motion pictures in particular.
I told him that when the outburst against motion pictures
came and a number of attempts were made in Albany to close such
exhibitions on Sunday, The People's Institute had organized
opposition thereto and had prevented the bills from being en¬
acted into law.
The position we took was that in the matter of Sunday
amusements no discrimination should be made against one class;
that, if Sunday amusements were to be prohibited, the prohi-
. bition should include all kinds and- that no allowance should be
(j-tl'i made to open any kind of a show on Sunday without proper pro¬
tection for the workers, so that no person should be compelled
to labor seven days in the week.
I did nut state to him a further • position which we took,
over against a goodly number of the clergy: namely, that we
were ready to join with them, if they wished, to test the
opinion of the community in closing everything on Sunday. We
put this up to them inasmuch as we knew that the legislature
would not pass any such measure and that the inclusion of mo¬
tion picture exhibits in the entire class of Sunday amusements
would properly and justly protect that class of shows.
I have not heard from Washington and shall be interested
to know what took place there.
) ,sr-
Prank W. Dyer,
Edison K'fg. Co. ,
East Orange, IT. J.
The People' • Itutitute it tuppoiled entirely by voluntary contribution*. Membership i* $5 per year, sad tipwj
payable to V. Event Macy. Treasurer, 318 Eait 15th Street. New York.
crisis
I have just dropped a line to li'r. Kennedy, suggesting
that we three get together for lunch somewhere early next v/eek, so
as to talk over certain matter b and shape the plans for the educa¬
tional exhibit which ought to he getting well into shape now’.
Dr. Kaxwell, you know, requires that he he notified def¬
initely that everything is in shape with sufficient leev/ay to enable
him to send out an invitation to leading educators at least ten
days before the 19th.
Picture Patents Co.,
80 Fifth Ave.,
City.
Feb! 14th, 19X0.
The following pictures seen at your office today,
are paso od by the National Board of Censorship
"The Thread of Destiny"
"The ITowlyweda"
"In Old California"
"A Sanliaa Sandwich"
"Beautiful Snow"
Biograph
Die graph
Biograph
Vltagraph
Vitagraph
Tiie following picture,
"An Bye for a u Eye" Vitagraph
tlio Board covld not p&38 in its present fora* Two
points are objected to into thus picture. Ona is that the ohcr&ot-
ors of tUo play take the law entirely in their own hands and the
oilier is the two scenes i:i uhioh two of the characters are choked
*co death.
The following suggestions are offered in an endeavor
to modify these two points.
Havfi the struggle between the young Italian and the
young w'oman greatly shortened so that he merely grasps her at
Inc throat and then throws her aside. Then ha.vo the soone whloh
whows the young girl on the bad with her rightful husband standi
mg oy | ended Just before ths lover entsrs the room, thereby
doing away with the old man's attaok upon him. The film then
ends up with the grave-yard scene as no v; presented.
These changes will necessitate* another title, such
as for instance, "An Italian Romance". With these changes, the
subtitle "Retribution" will have to bo eliminated.
Very truly yours,
IMTIOIfAJ, BOARD OF CENSORSHIP.
OEN'J, SFfl'V.
FRANK L. DYER , = „ VNLSON^ ^
EDISON MANUFACTURING EEL
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY g'*'
ORAN GE,JNrt). '5
EDISON PHOJEETINE KINETElSgS^E^AND FILMS.
CLEd'uwn- 10 Fifth Avenue, New York cable address
(a//' tyC'/'fly, Kai'Oh 1, 1910.
Kr. Prank L. Dyer, Vice-President,
Edison Fanufactur ing Co. ,
Orange, IT. T.
Dear Sir:-
I enclose a clipping from the Chicago
Show World of February 26th showing the action
taken by the Police Censors on recent pictures.'
The Vitagraph "AN EYE POR AIT EYE" iyas as I told
you rejected by the Board of Censors here, but
was afterwards passed with two scenes shortened.
Yours very truly,
re/bb
[ENCLOSURE]
POLICE CENSOR PICTURES
The crying need of police supervision over moving pictures is clearly
shown in. tile number of subjects which came under the ban of Sergt.-
Chas. E: O’Donnell, chief of tile ccnsorsiiip department of Chicago,
Outside of tile cities which follow the rulings of the Chicago Censorship
Board these objectionable pictures will be shown in hundreds of moving
picture theaters. For tile benefit of chiefs of police throughout the
country The Show World will present tile rulings of the Chicago board
every week.
THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE'-'
318 EAST FIFTEENTH ST. | 1 ^
Hia exhibition that we gave at the Century Club on
Saturday night may mean a great deal for the future of the motion pic¬
ture. As you know, the Century Association gathers the elite of the
city, clergy, educators, physicians, newspaper men, artists, etc. We
had a great audience present; the room jammed, and a goodly number
standing. ’Some of the pictures were remarkable. A leading physician
said to me, "I have been greatly interested in the "sleeping sickness",
and have read a good deal about it. I have learned more from the
films shown to-night, about that sickness, than from all my reading. *
We shall have to introduce the motion picture into the medical schools.'1
Another, a man who had devoted a good deal of time to
the study of wild birds, said to me, "In regard to the wild bird films,
in all my experience I have never seen anything equal to that." The
men were enthusiastic.
I am writing especially about an important matter. You
will be approached' soon with regard to arranging for an exhibit at the
Child Welfare exhibit next fall. That exhibit should be handled by the
manufacturers and the committee on censorship v/ithout any outside inter¬
ference. There are certain matters I do not care to put down on paper,
but let this much be said: tjjat a haB been constrained to withdraw
from this office for sufficient reasons and is now on the staff of that
welfare exhibit. From that position he is seeking to grip the situa-
tion* ThiB, of course Is confidential. For more than one reason
it would be unwise for you to allow him to succeed.
1 will talk that matter over with you when we meet.
CSS-S
Sincerely yours,
o
Mr. Frank L. Dyer,
Edison Manufacturing Company,
10 Fifth Avenue , City.
®Jf.f _ morning Etplegraplf
how York, March 31, 1910.
graph is over 100,000, reaching till amusement interests and the public, such an article
frsjii you should bo of groat interest ■- to mir rca-lora and beneficial to moving
picture interests.
Hoping that you will give this your earliest attontion, Ian
Yours very truly,
Mgr. Moving picture D»pt.
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Cfje - jftorntng 'Cclcgtnp])
Herewith phase find clipping from
issue of. / 3... t 19 fa
f MORALITY AND
\. FILM CENSORS HI P\
J. Stuart Blackton, vice-president and
secretary of tho Vitagrnph Company of
~ America, 1ms contributed the following
T interesting article on morality and ™
sorship of moving pictures:
'.‘Having been asked the mooted ques¬
tion, ‘When is a film not a film?' or iu
other words ‘Why is the censorship
board?’ I take considerable pleasure ’
- toeing permitted to formulate an appu
elation of tiie Now York Board of Cen¬
sors, and at the same time
for tiie poor downtrodden, „uuo«i*
and .misunderstood . manufacturer.. There
«_ 1 *’ • *10 Censorship Board
His actunl words
recently complained
of sensational subjects,
‘They (the public)
Tbo fact that tiie public is noiv
served cooked viands instead of ’i
and to the restraining influence -- *'
Bonrd of Censors.
•'They realize with us Hint tragedy
• “P,d drama, history and mythology, e~*
nil impossible in books, on the stage
motion pictures -witliont .... „,WkVH1.
'it of love, hate, jealousy and revenge,
“bout these impelling motives Balzac
d Aoln would be dull and uninterest-
f* Dickens and Thackeray uncoil vine-
. >Bn Sardou and Clyde . Fitch
iijf^n Vlctoricn Sardou MVU
"During tim early 'years of moving pic-
" Then ’interest *fI,lt ,Ilj|Ve‘l 1W0U,d. satisfy.
s 1 , vftir r i '
tiie public demand for' what is now
known and dignified by the appropriate
term Tiie Silent Drama. A fair-mind¬
ed investigation of the entire film pro¬
ducts of ■ the licensed manufacturers cun
but admit that there Is much to praise
and little to criticize in tiie 'silent drama’
of to-day, and that the Board of Censors
the manufacturers11 that* out^of* tho°hun-
dreds of film sut>j««u.«ubwittna
sorship so few are even questioned and
none are. condemned. Slight changes
and modifications arc sometimes suggest¬
ed, and often actually improve the effect
nf the story. Several years ago •
c
Now all unnecessary crime is elimin¬
ated, nml if the plot of the drnmn re¬
quires crime, as a cause for a subsequent
effect the crime is merely suggested. rIji
- recent production ^of ‘Victims - of I
ut Mexlcaus and ' cowboys lounging 1
_ ut outside. Suddenly they are seen :
to duck and scatter , in every direction.
A wreath of smoke floats out through >tbo
open door, a man baqks out from the in¬
terior. glaiiccs furtively about unci flees,
and the loungers, returning one by oue,
tell by their expressivo gestures and pnn-
tomiiue that a man has been shot The
story Is told with all tho horror und^bru-
of a shooting removed! 1 Iu Cal*
because there is no welt regulated,
'■sass
censors the films. All 'crime’, is sup¬
pressed — ‘cut out’ bodily. They cut out
the Wiling Julius Caesar. Tojjodsl
brawny ^policemen
■walking on tlic stugo of a New York
theatre aud (not) politely ordering E. H.
Sothcrn to ‘cut out the murder part, cull.'
doing their- duty like good soldiers (or
police). It/is not the .police who -are to
blame, not tho manufacturers who make
the films, not tho public that (in spito.
of all said to tho contrary) clamors for
tragedy; it is the fault of a few harrow-
now motion picture industry. When
every city has a broad-minded, Intelligent
board of ^ censors ^that can soe^a^ littiq
splendid serious ^fo portrayals^ 'that tho
licensed manufacturers are producing
dally to uphold the dignity and honor
of the greatest,, most popular and most
educational form of amusement in the
world, : then, and then only, will tho
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fhoro should ho no difforonoo of opinion botwoon honost
end olonn-mindod mon on tho subject of morality, eithor in a gonor-
al sonso or in its application to special conditions ouoh as tho
moving pieturo art. All of us at loast ought to know what is
right and what is wrong. Tho moving picture manufacturers
should realize, and I holiovo all of tho lioonsed manufacturers
do realize, that tho prosont intorost in tho silent drama is not
a moro passing ophomoral craze. It contains too many possibil¬
ities for good and onlightonmont to bo rogaraed in any other sense
than as a permanent and dignified form of amuoomont. It makes
its appeal largo ly to women and to young’ people, and it hoops many
a man from tho saloon. A film manufacturer who would attempt to
appeal to his audionoo by putting out a picture in any way sug-
gostivo or ssohing only to arouso interest by an appoal to. tho
bruto instincts of his audience is as misguided 03 the man who
would tell a questionable story in a company of ladicB and gon-
tlonon. Ho male 00 no appeal to eithor sox; the ladios aro shockod
and tho mon pity him for a fool. Cortainly a salacious or brutal
or criminal soono depicted by a moving picture can make no appoal
to tho innocent -mindod, and, while thoro may bo mon who perhaps •
would viaw such pictures with apparont pleasure, I doubt vory much
if thoy roally do. From a purely matorial sonso, thorofore, a
film manufacturer in my opinion would make a serious mistake in
putting out a picture with tho deliberate purpose of pandSf^EG
to a depraved or orotio taste. I do not boliovo, howovor, spook¬
ing for the licensed manufacturers, that tho matorial side of
the question:!, is so important as is tho idoa that thoy have
allied thomsolvos with a groat movement that is dosignod in the
National loarii nf fflpnanrBljtp /
W #"Y OF MOTION PICTURES
I \ ESTABLISHED BY THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE
| I 318 EAST FIFTEENTH STREET
i ’■ j NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.
lassw
ptfteLiZ
. .
COMMITTEE ON CENSORING
uthKDol£se Mm Auoocta*!**1*
F. Driscoll ^ ^ ^C. A.rProsser
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
SPBACUE ^lbkrt Y^Hindb
i OFFICERS
March 22d, 1910
My dear Mr. Dyer:
I fear that in trying to bring out a number
of. considerations in a very short time, X may not have
given you an ent irely just impression at our interview
to-day. I should explain that the Child Welfare Ex¬
hibit will have an important influence in shaping the
policy of New York City with regard to motion pictures.
The New York situation is by no means a settled one as
yet. On the contrary, it seems likely that there will
be a clear lining up of opposite forces, one group
striking for legal regulation of all amusements, in¬
cluding motion pictures (in effect, a legal censorship),
and the other group advocating such a co-operative meth¬
od as that of the 3oard of Censorship. I believe the
second group will prevail, because of the work done in
the past, because New York is in the main a liberal
City, and because the Mayor has a liberal cast of mind.
But this waits to be seen, 'in the meantime we ar.e anxious
through the Cild Welfare Exhibit and every other means
to educate the public to the more liberal, co-operative
view point. I write this, as X spoke to-day, simply
in order that you may have a clear grasp of the consid¬
erations that are guiding the Board of Censorship in
its program of legal work.
The Board of Censorship is going to co-operate
to the largest possible extent with the Child Welfare;
'Committee, but the Exhibit^ we will prepare is to be
gotten in shape in the near future and used wherever
there is an opportunity, and the Child Welfare Exhibit
will simply be one opportunity. The only point we
were anxious to secure this morning was that the manu¬
facturers should not so large ly undertake anything in
connection with the Child Welfare Exhibit as that re¬
sources would be drawn away from the important summer's
work Y/hich is right before us
Yours very truly,
Mr. Erank W. Dyer.
JrC^ CoJ?p^ '
THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE
318 EAST FIFTEENTH ST.
NEW YORK
J
0
y
«/
Kar. 30, 1910.
Pfo Prank V/. D^or,
10 Pifth Ave. ,
City.
You will have learned of the death of pro'*'
Charles Spraeue _Smith. It is a orushinc blow^
not only to the hoard of Censorship hut to the
many activities which had their origin throne li
Prof. Smith and to which he cave vital and con¬
stant direction. It was his own deepest wish that
tne work should be larger and more permanent than
the man, and the work will he carried ahead as fU*
as we are able with undiminished vigor and alon'
the lines he has laid out. Pending the choice o-r
a new General director for the People's Institute
the Board of Censorship will he headed by someone1
prominent and active. At present the executive
secretary of the People's Institute is Lester P.
Scott. I personally had accepted a commission which
would nave carried me out of the Institute and of
the Censorship for a time, hut in view of this emer-
Concy I shall probably succeed in cancelling this
commission and shall identify myself entirely wit**
the Institute and mainly with the Censorship, i
oiian v.™ advised as to the cour
i the
events
J?<rC— Q
JC/ftsH
I, larch .'31, 1910.
Hr. John Collior,
Iho People’s Inotituto,
S18 13. leth St., How York City.
Hy.doar Sir. Collior:
Your favor of the 50th inst . hac boon roooivod)
It a (jroat shook to no to hear of ]?rof. Smith's loath. 1
had not him only casually, hut had Soi-nod a high idoa of his
sinoordity end ability. Ho vac doinc a fine work, and I Imow
that it was a aourco of happiness to him. The Hoopla's Institute •
will, of couroo, go on, and l can only hopo that a worthy suocosoor
of ?rof. Smith may bo found. i shall bo obliGcd if you will koop
no adviood as to tho co-arao of ovonta, and am,
Yours vory truly.
FID/ ITO
Vico-Hrooidont.
£ •>« C i
EDISON MANUEACTURING COMPANY,
Orange ,
NEW JERSEY.
Dear Sirs:
I am enclosing an itemized statement showing the
monies that I have received and disbursed in representing
the licensed manufacturers and importers in connection with
the monthly contribution to the Board of Censorship.
On the last page of the statement, you will find
that your participation in the division of the accumulated
surplus, amounts to $53.01. On the same page, you will
also find that your participation in the surplus is
sufficient to pay your portion of the contribution for the
month of May, and at the same time, leave a balance of
$13.88 to apply on your contribution for the month of June.
When the time arrives for me to receive your
contribution for the month of June, I will write you
naming the amount of your contribution.
Respectfully,
[ENCLOSURE]
BOARD OB CENSORSHIP
PEOPLES' INSTITUTE
STATEMENT OB RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
1909
SURPLUS
June Received from Biograph Company, $ 50.00
" " Edison Mfg. Company, 50.00
" " Essanay Bilm Mfg. Company, 25.00
" " Kalem Company, 25.00
" " George Kleine, 75.00
" " Lut>in Mfg. Company, 50.00
" " Pathe Breres, 100.00
" " Selig Polyscope Company, 25.00
" " Vitagraph Co. of America, 50.00
450.00
Cheque to Peoples' Institute, 450.00
July Received from Biograph Company, 50.00
" " Edison Mfg. Company, 50.00
" " Essanay Bilm Mfg. Company, 25,00
" " Kalem Company, 25.00
" " George Kleine, 75.00
" •" Lubin Mfg. Company, 50,00
" " Pathe Breres, 100.00
" " Selig Polyscope Company, 25,00
" " Vitagraph Co, of America, 50,00
450.00
Cheque to Peoples' Institute, 450,00
August Received from Biograph Company,
» « Edison Mfg. Company,
" " Essanay Bilm Mfg. Company,
" " Kalem Company,
" " George Kleine,
" " Lubin Mfg. Company,
" " Pathe Breres,
" " Selig Polyscope Company,
" " Vitagraph Co. of America,
Cheque to Peoples' Institute,
$000 .00
000,00
000.00
$000.00
Carried Borward,
[ENCLOSURE]
Brought Forward,
Received from Biograph Company,
" " Edison Mfg, Company,
" " Essanay Film Mfg, Company,
" Kalem Company,
" " George Kleine,
" " Lubin Mfg. Company,
" " Pathe Freres,
" " Selig Polyscope Company,
" Vitagraph Co. of America,
Cheque to Peoples' Institute,
Received from Biograph Company,
" " Edison Mfg, Company,
" Essanay Film Mfg. Company,
" ICalera Company, ‘ ' '
" George Kleine,
" Lubin Mfg. Company,
" Pathe Freres,
" Selig Polyscope Company,
" Vitagraph Co. of America,
Cheque to Peoples' Institute,
Received from Biograph Company,
1 " Edison Mfg. Company
„ I,' Essanay Film Mfg. Company,
Kalem Company,
" George Kleine,
" lubin Mfg. Company.
" G. Melies, ’
11 Pathe Freres,
n Polyscope Company,
Vitagraph. Co. of America,
Cheque to Peoples' Institute,
Received from Biograph Company,
" Edison Mfg. Company
" Essanay Film Mfg. Company,
" " Kalem Company, p y’
" " George Kleine,
" Lubin Mfg. Company,
" G. Melies, ’
" Pathe Freres,
" SfJiS Polyscope Company.
Vitagraph Co. of America,
$000.00
Cheque to Peoples' Institute,
Carried Forward,
$187.50
[ENCLOSURE]
1910
Jan .
Pels.
Mar.
Apr.
Brought Forward,
Received from Biograph Company, $ 50,00
" " Edison Mfg. Company, 50,00
" " Essanay Film Mfg, Company, 50,00
" " Kalem Company, 25.00
" " George Kleine, 75,00
" " Rubin Mfg. Company, 50,00
11 " Pathe Freres, 100,00
11 " Selig Polyscope Company, 50,00
11 " Vitagraph Co, of America, 50,00
6 0 O' .00
Cheque to Peoples' Institute, 450,00
Received from Biograph Company, 50,00
" " Edison Mfg. Company, 50,00
" " Essanay Film Mfg. Company, 50.00
" " Kalem Company, 50.00
" " George Kleine, 75,00
" " Rubin Mfg. Company, 50.00
" " Pathe Freres, 100,00
" " Selig Polyscope Company, 50.00
" " Vitagraph Co. of America, 62.50
Cheque to Peoples' Institute,
450 loo
Received from Biograph Company, 50.00
" " Edison Mfg. Company, 50.00
1 " Essanay Film Mfg. Company, 50.00
' " Kalem Company, 50.00
” " George Kleine, 75.00
" " Rubin Mfg, Company, 50,00
" " Pathe Freres, 100.00
" " Selig Polyscope Company, 50.00
" Vitagraph Co. of America, 75.00
Cheque to Peoples' Institute,
Received from Biograph Company,
" " Edison Mfg. Company,
" " Essanay Film Mfg. Company,
" Kalem Company,
" " George Kleine,
" " Rubin Mfg. Company,
" " G. Melies,
" " Pathe Freres,
" " Selig Polyscope Company,
" Vitagraph Co. of America,
Cheque to Peoples' Institute,
Surplus remaining after paying contribution
for April - carried forward,
50.00
50.00
50.00
50.00
75.00
50.00
25.00
100.00
50.00
75.00
450,00
SUBPRUS
$187,50
50,00
87.50
100.00
125,00
$550.00
[ENCLOSURE]
Brought Forward. ,
May Contribution to Peoples' Institute,
Contributions to be paid by Kalem
Company and G, Melies, according to
following detail statement,
Deficit for May - to be deducted
from surplus,
Surplus to be carried forward to June
contribution,
SURPLUS
$550.00
$450.00
12,32
437.68 437.68
$112.32
DIVISION OP SURPLUS.
Participation of each manufacturer and importer in the
surplus of $550. on hand on May 1, 1910, is shown below:
Biograph Company,
Edison Mfg, Company,
Essanay Film Mfg. Company,
Kalem Company,
George Kleine,
Lubin Mfg. Company,
G. Melies,
Pathe Freres,
Selig Polyscope Company,
Vitagraph Co. of America,
$ 53.01
53.01
44.73
36.44
79.52
53.01
9.94
106.03
53,01
61.30 $550.00 •
Contributions to be paid by manufacturers and importers
during May 1910. after deducting participation of each in
the surplus of $550., and balances to be carried forward to
apply on contributions for June.
Biograph Company,
Edison Mfg, Company,
Essanay Film Mfg. Company,
Kalem Company,
George Kleine,
Lubin Mfg, Company,
G. Melies,
Pathe Freres,
Selig Polyscope Company,
Vitagraph Co. of America,
Contribution
None
$ 2.69
None
$ 9.63
None
Balance
to apply on
June
Contribution
$ 13.88
13.88
5.60
None
20.82
13.88
None
27.78
13.88
2.60
t
I hand you herewith copy of a letter from
Mrs. Redding to Mrs. Plimpton, which I wish you would
read carefully and let me have your comments. I do not
know the present situation regarding the Board of Censors,
hut 1 do feel most strongly that the putting out of
unnecessarily horrible and oruel pi ctures can do the
business no good. What I would propose would be to take
up the matter in a general way at some Manuf ajturerB *
mooting and point out without mentioning any names that
pictures of this sort should not be made and try to urge
upon the Manufacturers the importance of being most care¬
ful in the selection of their subjects. Do you think that
this would do any good? *
IXD/ARK.
[ENCLOSURE]
•)L, ^iLy^y d'&cf S\L*s«hJ c AJly y
. Si COPY
Spuyfcen Duyvil,
IT. Y. City
9 June 1910.
lira. Plympton:-
n0Kl ?01’ thG Iaot that I am resigning from
the Censor Board Committee and thus materially reducing the chance
oi seeing you I should not inflict you with this long letter, the
substance of which X could tell you some Friday morning if the old
times were to continue.
I am writing this not as a member of the Committee past' or
present but as one whose interest in the motion picture is the re¬
sult of a Cardful observation of its status, its achievments and
its potentialities, observation carried on since the autumn of 1907.
_ , . tlrS°?}e of us in the Board are much worried over a film by
Selig THE HID I AITS VAY" shown on Friday last . I do not know that
you saw it, if not, this is its story in brief. —
An Indian is presented engaged in agriculture: his young
wife persuades him to leave his work and teach her to shoot game.
The second scene is a cheap gambling joint and a man who cheats at
cards and later attempts to kill the man who denounces him. Later
he escapes on a horse from which he falls through weakness. He is
discovered by the Indian and his Squaw taken to their home and res¬
tored to health. He repays their hospitality by making love to the
squaw, discovered by the Indian while he is carressing the woman .
The husband takes down his gun but reconsiders and orders both from
the house. The next scene five years later shows the outside of
cheap quarters, the seduoers inebriated and treating the woman very
roughly. This. very rough handling he continues indoors his brutally
being seen by an Indian who reports to the husband. The physical
violence with which he treats the women results in her death. She
is carried by the Indian and the betrayer now sobered, to her grave.
The next scene discovers the white man bound to a tree, the husbands
intentions being that he shall stay there without food, water or
shelter until he dies. To madden the captive he brings food and
a jug of water which he places at his feet. During the 'temporary
absence of her husband the captive induces a little girl, child of
the dead squaw to cut the cords that bind him. He falls now from
weakness and hitting the water jug he raises on his knees ad lifts
J110, mouth. This thirst can be imagined as according to
the titles he has been tied in a standing position to the tree for
more than three days and nights and deprived of food and water.
The Indian returning strikes the jar and shatters it before
the poor wretch lias been able to get a drop. The Indian then sx
seizes the captive and the two struggle finally rolling over and
over to the top of a high embankment down which the Indian manages
to send the wrong doer to his death in the waters below.
. Tlie story is horrible and it certainlypaints no moral.
Private vengeance whether in mob or individual is lawlessness and
we certainly do not want to show that in such a way?Vto make a
iu5t°v,?LaiJlndlCti'7e man Wh0 oonceiTes a fiendish method of reveng¬
ing himself upon the man who wronged him. .
[ENCLOSURE]
Violence is the predominating note- pistol shootiner
murder oi the girl through physical brutality, the torture of the
culprit the struggle and finally the second murder. Some of -tp
»uttouteJtl’Lvhtim^£,'h0t °£ ha^1i1f SUCl1 a cr'aelly shocking story
1 TJ t f tut especially now when local magistrates
len^ ?hT^il0tl°n, 1Ct-reS fr0iil the bench because of the vio-
K r especially to be deplored that such,
a_ , snoulcl be exhibited as it will *nXav direct lv into -Mi* ■hovirio
of those ymaWBM H who were "behind the ioostiby Bill and who are
•PUWi- B?C^a:lon Committee3 shall be apjointed
\r113V va ourisdiction over Motion Pictures arid cheap
theatres. Mayor Gaynor has blocked their efforts this year but they
mat5e? res^ at that. The Globe (The Evening Pape?)
has published in print articles recently against Motion Pictures '
f?® aPPearing in the Saturday Home Edition in form of a letter from
the people. The wriuer purports to have visited a picture show
S??vp«.W?v! s1h0T71] a jeSl0US 2ife 7/h0 hires iwo ruffians to slash with
knives the handsome j.ace of her too fascinating husband so that he
%*£**?%• The miter 3t ates she p“te“ed the
id the fllm ^ad oeen Passed upon by "A Committee to
Committee correspondents refer, "The lord have mercy on the
,1™, Q a P1ifi’t?n,,and yourself are keenly alive to this great
danage done to the industry economically as well as ethically in
m i™1*??11 0f T;L°lQnce 311(1 o" crime that absolutely conveys
TO-,r1™fv»n+^nd,T.1 this thinking perhaps you can in some
Producers realize the unwisdom from every point of
view of bringing out this objectionable type of picture.
n9w„?i0ne thdn® they are playing into the hands of Psuedo
llSv^+vL ?he aou"try as well as in Mew York and making
+v^ the establishment of Censor Committee in every hamlet inS
the land- eacn with its individual and in most instances unintelli-1
gent and, hostile view of stage productions,
+ . T again say that this letter is written without consul-
ifCindiii^l^iS-!11^ “ iS t0 be 00nsldere(i as exprsssi*
Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) Josephine Redding.
In ro. your attached memo.
I do not understand how the censorship hoard ever .
passed this picture, particularly in view of the fact, that some few
months ago they turned down one of the Biograph pictures which ran
very much along the same linos. V/hen that picture was turned down,
-ir. Marvin felt very badly about it and put the matter directly up
to Mr. Chas. Sprague Smith, and Ur. Kennedy and Ur. Smith, with Hr.
Marvin went over the picture, and they finally accepted Smith’s ruling
that there was nothing whatever that was good in the picture, nor noth¬
ing that was. appealing.
She story of the picture, which by the way was called:
"-ho. Man,” was almost the same as this of Selig, except that it was a
white man and not an Indian. I do not know whether the Censorship
Board has cotton" weak-kneed" or not, but I see no reason why it should
be .
I think your suggestion of talcing tho matter up before
the manufacturers’ Meeting will do some good, if it is approached careful-
1910. Motion Pictures - Experimental (D-10-47)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
technical development of films, cameras, and projectors. Included are items
pertaining to the experimental work on color photography contracted to Charles
L. Brasseur; other experimental work conducted at the West Orange laboratory
by Willard C. Greene; and the development of the "Household Projecting
Kinetoscope," a small projector for home use. There are also assessments of
improvements submitted to the Edison Manufacturing Co. by outsiders,
including evaluations of the color photographic process developed by Florence
Warner and John H. Powrie. Among the correspondents are Frank L. Dyer,
vice president of the Edison Manufacturing Co.; George F. Scull, assistant to
the vice president; and Horace G. Plimpton, manager of negative production
in the Kinetograph Department.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include correspondence regarding improvements that the
company declined to pursue, as well as items that duplicate information in
selected material.
CHARLES L. BRASSEUR
Hio ^ 'P. - T1^ i-n-u
Jan. 10, 1910.
Mr. Frank L. Dyer,
Orange, H. J.
Hy dear Mr. Dyer:-
I think it will help to clear matters for me to brief¬
ly review the different points brought out in my talk with your
Mr. Greene, and between ourselves at different times.
First, I consider, that as far as the positive film is
concerned, the matter is purely a mechanical one. There can be no
doubt whatsoever that, given a colored negative, it is possible to
photographically duplicate colored positive films with no more troubl
than you now have in producing black and white films and just as
quickly.
As to the negative film, let me refresh your memory
as to our conversation with Mr. Edison and Mr. Gilmore at the time_
we first di3CU33ed this matter.
The one question Mr. Edison immediately put was, what
about the red? and, as I explained at the time and demonstrated
if
since, the other two colors can be fully photographed, a deficiency
of the red can be remedied by retouching it in on the original nega¬
tive. It can also be improved by favoring the red image when
printing the colored positive film, by means of the variable sectors
as shown by me to your Mr. Greene. All mechanical photographic pro¬
cesses require some re-touching, and ifc. this case, all that would be
necessary would be to prepare a chart of say 30 or 40 colors and to
make a negative of this chart. If the color desired were, say Ho.
25, the re-toucher would only have to consult his negative chart and
300 v/hat color he must use on hia negative to have Ho. 25 appear on
the positive film.
As to speed, there is no doubt whatsoever that much
greater speed than you mentioned to me is possible. Years ago,
/ 1900, I photographed a tiger in a'.qqarter Becond, (lens 6.8). I have
made a horse in motion in what the shutter makers claim was 1/55 of
a second, and as to 1 and 2 second exposures in the shade they have
been innumerable. But it seems to me that the results claimed for
the Smith two-color process more than anything else fully justifies
my belief that great speeds are possible, for it is claimed that they
make 32 exposures per second. If they can do that, why could we not
make our 16 per second. I have have had one of my focal plane
shutters tested as to speed by means of on apparatuc which records
the 1/1200 of a second, so as to know positively what I am doing, and
now that the harassing mechanical details are settled, and that I
know exactly the method I am to follow, I intend to give my entire
attention to making up films and the question of the speed that can
be attained with the colors that are available for my purpose, will
soon be determined.
I have some time ago photographed through an orange
screen in 1/35 of a second and I know that much faster exposures can
be had with the green and the blue oolors than with the orange.
I am again going to invite your attention to a letter I
wrote you before we concluded to begin these experiments and I quote
it here in full:
CHARLES L. BRASSEUR
On a method of obtaining colored positive films from existing blaok
and white negatives. (Supplementing Jotter February 19th).
A negative, complementary in color to the desired oolors of
the positive, is essential. As it would be extremely difficult to
work up the negatives in their actual 3tate — that is to keep the
effects of the light and shade and give the oolors the tight in¬
tensities, it will be better to make enlarged positive;, films— color
them up by hand in the desired colors — and then to make a regular
sized negative from this positive, on one of the grained negative
folms. This grained negative now in complementary colors, or prac¬
tically so, can be used to print positive colored films by the pro¬
cess described in the patent application submitted.
IT-O-S-E
As to the negatives to be made in the future, it is a
question whether it would not be wise to follow this method rather
than to photograph the color directly. The question of speed of
exposure would he eliminated; existing accessories could he used
without reference to the color and if a color record were desired
of the costumes, etc. — a single color record could be made with on
drdinary camera. Moreover the negative could be used for both black
and white work and for colors wliicj could not readily be done if
the grained colored negative were the first one made.
To Mr. F. L. Byer,
Montclair, N. J. (Signed) Chas. L. Brasseur,
Feb. 22nd '08.
I invite you to seriously considerthis, especially Jhe note.
X realize now how impossible it is to make enlargement s from existing
negatives, hut I see no very good reason why new negatives should
not he made on a someivhat larger scale, than those now used, the
positives of coursg- to he printed the same size as those now in use.
The adoption of this course would not prevent or delay the working
up the fast negative film and you would have the satisfaction of
knowing positively that you could soon put on the market photograph¬
ically colored positive films, which, after all,' is what the public
wamts. At least why not try one?
X remain,
Yours very truly,
V
1710
_1±88l_
7Y\ • p. - 7^-kvvu
MEMORANDUM
Mr. Buehler:
1/14/ 10.
I propose, just as soon as possible, notify¬
ing Mr. Brassour that we do not oaro to continue with
his experiments beyond the present year, which 1 think
ends March 31st. Before notifying him, I would like to
know just what machines and other materials he has on
hand so that we can get hold of it when he is closed up.
I do not mean, of course, the material he would use from
time to time, but the permanent things, such as machines
and fixtures of various sorts. You may be able to get
these from the various invoices. lot me have this infor¬
mation as soon t
ELD/imY
3 possible.
]?. 1.
;. D .kfS
n
/
[FROM WILLARD C. GREENE]
Jan.
Id, 1910.
I.Itr. Psnr.i; . iyor,
Silicon ."ainnd'autiu’inr; Co.
Oranj-o, ,7
3*0 ar
In ooraplionoo with hr. Kdinon'c and your ro-
ouost, I have nr do oovoral preliminary oxporimcnts
wi“3' 1.7’c Vmrncr - ovsdo film scroon submitted, r nd
prooont iiic follov/inc 4 t. for your consideration
of the practical operation and adaptation to the present
3'inotoccopo Gorvioo. I pish to state that those find-
lMC“ ,ro not "° 130 oonoidorod final nor ooaploto, but
oiu’fioiont to indioato true conoral dlfsricultioG to bo
encountered.
On January 12th, at 11: so . (n0 diroot rmnlitfit)
uoing a Imi.-d.orc 'achromatic C ostra rapid dry a to (proh
b:i.y a more oono^tivo surface Lh n sensitised filn v.-ould
be), and Goert? Sorico III, 6 n otifinnt lens, the
four follo\.j n j or-rpoouroo acre undo to cheer other previous
cupocureo:
1* _anoh.ronr.tic C on y
lone aperture r-22
1/15 second.
ho. 3. "anchrcr.vtic C ulus V/.-a scroon
J.eiia aporturo P—23
1 second
ho. 3. aanchror.v tic C nine V/.-’h scroon m%m
conponoatinc filter,
hens npcrturo P-22
0 oooenda
Panchromatic C plus r». r?- screen pluo
oompenGatinc filter
ions a -orturo P-0
l/l5 socond.
(s)
Hi coo four onposm-os wore developed simulta¬
neously with normal lyro-Boda. dcvclopor under normal con¬
ditions. The printc v:oro nado undor conditions oqual
to all. She cup o our o ration permit of at loaot an
approximate ootiraato of tlio opood relation of tlio color
procooc to the. monotone procooo. I v/ich to onphnslso
that while ohort exposures aro porfootly oosciblo with
louses working at the or.tr one apertures of F-5.5 to F-5,
it has boon found impractical to use ouch ;v-orturoc in
General i'.inctoocopc worh, o tlio nogativoo have insuffi-
oiont sharpness due to the email dopth of focus of lonsos
WorJring c.t ouch larcc apertures. To obtain tho roqui-
cito aharpnooo, apertures from 3?-0 to F-16 aro ncoossary.
Also, in color worh an error of over 20# is docidodly
a critical condition and tho peroont of failures? therefore
would he much creator than with the present r out i ftp worh.
An cztronoly important peiivl; to consider is the
adherence of tho Gelatine emulsion to the film. It
has not boon determined if tho sr.oroon^gjyf so would exort
an unfavorable influonco upon tho adJjforonco . C-olatino
emulsion will strip from celluloid unless tho film is
specially troated, and considerable oxporinontal worh
would bo necessary with tho V/. -■?. screen to dotormino the
most advantacoous troatmont.
Suoh other points as spocinl fine Grained om.ul-
siono, noro rapid sonsitisors, conponcatinG filters of
lower extinction ocofficlcntc , moro rapid shutter dovioos,
positive printing, do-sonsitising for dovolopmont, oto. ,
ctol I have not undertahon to give special considora-
tion in this report. Hoo?ootrHliy yours,
Do ■*./>.
Jan. 20, 1910.
Mr. Prank 1. Dyer ,
Edison Manufacturing Co.,
Orange, If. J.
Boar Sir:
At Mr. Edison's and your request, I have mado an
analytical survey of certain methods for photographing and
projecting color in kinetoscope work as Mr. Charles 1.
Brassour has anticipated. I mado two visits to Mr.
Brasseur's laboratory, whero he explained numerous details of
the procoss, showed me various material and also work in the
experimental stage. The tri-oolor film screen I understand
is not as yet perfected. Various phases of the process, in a.
general way, may he statod as follows:
TRI -COLOR PILM SCREEN :
To oonsist of orange, yellow-green and blue-violet
eloments mado of minute cubes of stained celluloid comented to
a celluloid supporting film, without instersticos nor opaque
filling. The actual ratio of the finished screen, or the
percent, of incident light it excludes has not been determined.
A rapid panchromatic dry-plate exposed behind it would probably
roquire (estimated by Vi. C. 0.) 12-15 times more exposure than
same plate without screen. Actual permanence of the colors
under repeated effect of light and heat of electric arc is
questionable.
EMULSIOIJ
The adherence of gelatine emulsion to the finished
film screen is a matter requiring experimental work. Emul¬
sion will strip easily unless the celluloid is specially
treated and such treatment is held a seorot process among
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film makers. She technique required might influence the
permanence of the colors and also might cause the colors to
spread. Emulsions of finer grain than the present Eastman
negative film would he necessary in order to preserve continu¬
ity of detail. Therefore a less sensitive emulsion, in the
light of our present knowledge.
SEIISITIZIHG THE EMUISION;
Color sensitiveness would have to ho conferred upon
the emulsion hy the process called sensitizing, e.g. , adding
certain dye-stuff solutions direct to prepared omulsion or
hy bathing emulsion coatod film in weak dye solutions with
subsequent drying. Either process lowers the general sensi¬
tiveness of tho emulsion, impairs its keeping qualities hy
development of chemical fog, increases its difficulty of hand¬
ling and of clear development. Sensitizing for true reds
would lower the green sensitiveness together with the com¬
bined sensitiveness too much for general practice. Mr.
Brassour does not anticipate using film sensitized for
true rods, hut would compensate hy retouching negative film
with required complementary color. Up to present date no
manufacturer has marketed panchromatic film. It would he from
15$ to 35$ slower than sensitive film used at present.
OOHPEIISAIIIIG FILTER
To obtain correct photographic register of colors
according to their visual intensities, a yellow compensating
filter (used before or betweon lens), correctly adjusted to
tho color sensitiveness of the emulsion, must bo used.
This filter will generally require an increased exposure
6 to 8 times. According to the season, time of day and condi¬
tion of atmosphere it is necessary to vary tho intensity of
(3)
this filter to compensate for changing character of daylight,
ilr. Braoseur has made provision for those conditions. Un¬
fortunately, some of tho dark days requiro the use of a
deeper screen than seme of tho bright days. Incorporating
a yellow dye-stuff in the emulsion would act as filter, hut
whilo faster, would he without compensation. Increasing
depth of filter doos not compensate for lack of rod sensi¬
tiveness entirely.
BEITS ES IET EXPOSURE:
Modern anastigmat lenses, with available apertures
of P-3.5 and P-4.5, whilo permitting of rapid exposures when
working at ouch apertures, tho negativo obtained possesses
too little sharpness and too slight a depth of necessary
focus to make tho negative acceptable for kinctoscope work.
Apertures of P-8 to P-16 are necessary in general practice.
SHUT EPS III EXPOSURE.:
As focal piano shutters are not sufficiently perfect¬
ed for kinctoscope work, much decrease of exposure through
shutter devices is not probable.
EXPOSURE TECHNIQUE:
Exposures in both negative and positive work must
be within very small limits of orror (5$) to obtain correct
color values. Errors of 20$ in exposure is a critical
condition in color work. Color values would vary greatly
with incorrect exposures. Tho percent of failures unquestion¬
ably would bo much greater than in regular work. A l/35th
/ second exposure through a teight red screen is possible with a
rapid dry-plate sensitized for red especially; under best con¬
ditions of light, and at an aperture of P-6.8, but these con¬
ditions are unadaptable for even the most ordinary of moving
(4)
picture work as Indicated above.
HKmoparmTi :
All film would require do-sensitizing to make hand¬
ling during development a safe process. Clear and clean
results could not be expected in general practice as with c-~~-
unsen3itized ‘‘•Ham.*' •
POSITIVE PRINTING:
Positive film would require same sensitizing as
negative film, exposing through compensating filter and the
additional care in handling; also incroased intensity of
illumination to moko short exposures possible.
DENSITY FACTORS;
Added .extinction of incident light by tri-color film
screen demands incroased intensity of illumination in pro¬
jection, which increases the fire risk unless corrected by a
cooling oell system. Likewise, there is increased liability
to bleach colors of the color filter.
COLOR DISCREPANCIES:
Most work tends to show a preponderance of some one
color, gone rally blue whore short exposures are attomptod.
Compensation by changing the values of the tri-color screen
ratios for the positive film as suggested by Mr. Brassour
would change only a small percent of color.
RETOUCHING:
Lack of red sen3itivenoss in the emulsion could be
compensated by retouching the negative with its complementary
color. This is practical where such color is isolated or in
patches, but where it is a component element, considering
y pigments, as in brown, greens, puiples, etc. , with their
v/ various shades and corrections would be impossible, as
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instanced in the detail of landscape or stage settings. Hr.
Brasseur suggests the use of large nogative film to obviate
some of the retouching difficulties.
RBsumT.
Iri-color film screen 12-15 times increase over nor¬
mal exposure, with compensating filter 6-8 times over that.
Sensitizing emulsion lowers sensitiveness probably 25$.
lenses cannot be used at large apertures and obtain re¬
quired sharpness of image. Adherence of gelatine emulsion to
tri-color film a subject for experimental work, as is a fine
grained but rapid emulsion, and the proper sensitizing of the
same. Errors of exposures must bo within very small limits,
therefore peroent of failures much greater than with regular
process. Red sensitive emulsion not anticipated, therefore
larger negative film required to facilitate compensatory
retouching. Permanency possibly questionable. General
color effects uncertain and more density than with a monotone
positive.
Respectfully yours.
RLES L. BRASSEUR
Jan. 21, 1910.
Frank L. Dyer, Esq. ,
Dear Sir:-
So fully understand the roll-film problem I
think it will be well to review the considerations involved, which
considerations have prompted my course.
Apart from that prime necessity of cheap and reliable
production of the film, a matter which goes without saying, it was
evident 'that, for the film to be durable, the material forming the
pattern of the screen must be part and parcel of the film— welded
to it, not stuck on it— so that it could be rolled and unrolled
without danger of the pattern scaling off in spots.
That it be absolutely transparent so as to admit of
the greatest possible brilliancy of the image.
That the colored units forming the pattern of the screen-
lines, blocks or dots— be such as to admit of the formation of any
length of film, at the same time guarding against the possibility
of any line of demarcation showing where any two lengths of film
are welded together.
That these colored units be not only extremely small
but be of praotically the same siae; that they be kept together
if possible in groups of three colors so as to make it possible,
when photographing to get the right color in the smallest details.
Finally, that these groups of threes be so united as to
furnish a screen free from apparent structure, thus avoiding the
mechanioal effeot so unpleasantly evident in screens having a re¬
gularly recurrent pattern.
For about two years before I met you, 1 had been experi-
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men ting with various transparent f MU*, having come to the conclu-
Bion that filaments .or threads would most easily furnish the units
of a uniform size. My attempts , at that time, to hunch them to¬
gether and out them into sheets made me believe that that would be
extremely difficult to accomplish with the limited means at my com¬
mand. I had also drawn up a mechanism on the shot-tower principle
to obtain droplets. On the other hand, the fact that silk was
being cut up in very small lengths, for use in making imitation
velvet wall papers, and the fact that one of the parties engaged in
thus cutting silk, Mr. Evrard, offered to place his experience at
my command, decided me in favor of the cutting up of filaments to
obtain my units.
1 had obtained samples of the various artificial filamente
on the market, and found, that though cheap and very fine in tex¬
ture ($1.80 to $3'. 00 per lb.), they were extremely irregular in sec¬
tion and thus unfit to obtain units of a uniform volume. 1 have
been told since that this irregularity is not necessarily inherent
to the process of manufacture, but that twists are introduced to
obtain lustre, by increasing the number of reflecting surfaces. I
found moreover , that the filaments were not as transparent as cel-
luloid and analogous Aplastic substances. By exclusion therefore, I
S necessarily came back to celluloid as being the most practical under
the circumstances. Celluoid thread had been made and material
woven out of it years ago, but the manufacturers claimed that it
would cost thousands and thousands of dollars to re-establish the
plant for making filaments, and I therefore concluded to produce
the filaments myself by cutting up thin film. This was the state
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CHARLES L. BRASSEUR
E.L.D.#3.
of affairs when I met you.
As to the first thread-cutting machine, it is only-
necessary to review the difficulties we had in obtaining suitable
material— how I scoured America and Europe for tempered steel—
the unwillingness of manufacturers to give themselves the extra
trouble to roll metal to suitable thicknesses at any price. We
finally got the machine, but had to rebuild it, X don't know how
malothermeS’ toefore we were certaln to have the thread delivered on
the side and not all tangled up in the machine. It took us many
months, perhaps the best part of a year, from the time we j-werei enabled
to take possession of the laboratory, July 1908, before we felt
sure that we had obtained what we were striving for — threads per¬
fectly uniform in thickness and which it was possible to make by
the mile.
In the meantime, I had obtained samples of coloring
matters, suitable for dyeing celluloid, from all the color manufactur
era, had had solutions made of all of them, had had duplicate
specimens of film dyed with these, and had tried one complete set
of specimens in the electric lantern, each one going through 1000
times, to ascertain the light resistance of the various colors—an
endless amount of detail work, but essential to be able to ensure
a satisfactory produot.
She next step was to obtain uniform sections of the
threads. We found that our thread-cutting machine would not
answer for this purpose. It wa3 impossible to hold the filaments
so as to out an entire length at one time , and even with the f ila-
I
ments imbedded, in paraffine, there were draggings and tearings of
filaments which resulted in uneven sections. I proceeded to alter
a cutting machine which I found on the market and which has given
exeoellent results down to 3/1500 of an inch, but even here, there
was such a pulling and tearing of threads that it became necessary
to consider imbedding the threads in harder and harder material so
as to offer greater resistance to the knife. SYom there, coming
baok to the first idea of cementing the threads together, and then
making a continuous sheet was but a step.
While the mechanical parts were being built, X undertook
to determine the conditions necessary to ensure the welding to¬
gether of the small units, while not destroying the individual uMt,
th*t is, for instance, to join together a red unit having a diameter
of say 1/1000: te ' 3/150(1 inch and a red ohe without any appreciable
mixture of color at the point of welding. This, undoubtedly, has
been the hardest problem that I have had to contend with, and al¬
though I had been getting along pretty well during the fall, it was
not until the last days of 1909 that X felt that I had it settled.
I had started out on the well-known theory that heat and
pressure will cause pieces of celluloid to weld together. They un¬
doubtedly do when these pieces are freshly cut and have fresh sur¬
faces, and have moreover some body to them, but when those pieces
are thoroughly dried pieces of film 1/1000 to 1/1500 of an inch
thick, the problem is very different. I have united many films
when still fresh but never kept the colors clear, and it was only
after many experiments that I found that part of the color mixing
when the film waa in this fresh state was due to the vaporisation of
the solvent remaining in the film and which carried the color along
with it. I made numerous experiments changing the composition of
the film to try to make it adhere, but with little success. I
found that it was necessary that the film be absolutely dry, and more¬
over that the film must dry spontaneously. Application of heat while
dryingj if applied before the fourth or fifth day, changes many of the
colors. All these things take time. Changing the temperature of
the hydraulic press 30 as to vary an experiment takes time~it is a
great ma3s of metal to heat or cool and if you use small masses it
is difficult to keep them at a constant temperature, and unless you do
you don't know what you are doing, and it is essential that you deter¬
mine these working conditions to be able to ensure similarity of re¬
sults. 1 admit this is a platitude, but all the same, these things
take time to do.
The best results 1 had obtained in the fall were with vapors
of carefully selected solvents, solvents which v/ould not affect the
colors employed. If threads^be exposed thUB in a chamber and the
vapors be drawn through the,, threads, they will gradually soften and a
gentle pressure is all that is necessary to make them adhere. But I
had great variation in the results, a3 X could not control my tempera¬
tures, and to do so, got an incubator so that I could determine and con
trol exactly the conditions under which I was working. Por the assem¬
bling lot threads : I think that there is no better way than this grad¬
ual softening by vapors and then pressing together. Por sheets I had
to proceed differently and had finally to give up the heat and pres¬
sure idea and cement them together. It took a long time to work that
CHARLES L. BRASSEUR
out, — book information is very meagre on the subject,— cements sold
in the market aot much too powerfully, but repeated successes with the
cement I have made up, show that I have finally worked that out. I
found that using a very weak cement and graining the surface of die
film, so as to hold it, was the very best method, even on a large
scale this would be easy, as rolls are made for the purpose of grain¬
ing sheets by passing the sheets sthrough them. X have been doing this
cementing by hand, but of course must make up a small machine to
moisten and roll the films together. This is the only machine that
I need to complete the work. The grinding machine is,, to be repaired
as a casting broke. I believe that the rest is all done.
I must now make up some films, which could not be done un¬
til the other problems had been worked out aB the color (the chemical
not the hue) varies with the vapor or solvent employed to facilitate
adhesion and this question was only settled a day or two before the
close of the year.
In the present condition of affairs this film making takes a
quite some time. I need about 500 sheets of each of the 6 colors-
three negative colors, three positive colors and the sheets must be
allowed to dry spontaneously. In practice it will be possible to
make up filaments direotly,as artificial silk is now made, as the ab¬
solute uniformity of section is no longer required, or it will be possi¬
ble to veneer strips frogi a solid block of celluloid, strips so narrow
that they can be veneered very thin and then split up into filaments.
If the filaments are spun they can be united together three by three
by the process known as throwsting,— the process by which textile
threads are ordinarily built up, and then converted into a block by
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pumping vapor of a solvent through tlie mass and. then pressing them to¬
gether. I have already pressed 3ome of these triple threads together
and cut them, and. will now make up, before making the final blocks,
enough of them to give you a clear idea of what Buch a section is.
To SU& up this process fulfills practically all the condi-
. It is cheap, ( bfatub twiWur'J
tions required.A Threads artificially spun costs not 'over $3.00 per
lb. The threadB can be united together three by three by the methods
now used, .or thin strips oan be veneered from each of three blocks
rolled together into one triple strip and cut in a threading machine,
though I prefer the former method. Uniting ar welding together of
these triple threads into a solid block will not, I believe, occasion
much difficulty, for the experience I have had in dealing with the in¬
dividual sheets and threads will serve jflo for this. The units are
small, 1600 to 3600 per sq. mm. and are moreover united in groups of
threes. The screen is as transparent as it is possible to have it.
It is structureless, for the triple threads are crushed into every con
ceivable shape, the areas along remaining equal. This enables me to
make ah endless strip for moving picture work, for there is no pattern at
the1 point of juncture to be matched. As to the thickness of this
strip I cannot affirm at present. Flat veneered sheets 21 inches wide
5-e
and IS inches long are made 1/175 of an inch thick. '
I have obtained catalogues from the principal veneer machine
manufacturers and have received samples of veneered wood as thin as
a/400 of an inch. The machines made at Lockport, II . Y. impressed me a
as being so particularly well built that I went up to see about them.
The manufacturers are willing to guarantee me a machine which can cut
1/800 of an inch. Only experiment will determine the exact thiokness
which can be cut in widths suitable for moving picture work. But at
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the very worst, if we cannot veneer this screen very thin, all that
we will have to do will be to grind off the surface; I know that
this is possible, for X have done so* Neither is there any danger
of the pattern falling to pieces, for every day huge quantities of
ivory sheets are veneered and the blockB from whioh they are veneered
are made up of alternate light and dark sheets pressed together.
I do not know if there is any special difficulty in veneer¬
ing a continuous strip of celluloid. Flat veneering is done every
day , but of course there is a good deal of resisting material against
which the knife can press. In the ordinary rotary machine that re¬
sistance would not be there, but it occurred to me that were it ne-
coosary to introduce it, all that would have to be done, would be to
reverse the ordinary operation of rotary veneering, that is, make a
hollow ring of celluloid and then veneer from die inside as shown on
the accompanying sketch. That would overcome that objection, if ob¬
jection there be.
X have tried to explain things clearly for you, but of
course it is difficult to see things from the other man's point of
view, so if anything remains to be cleared up, just make me a list of
questions and I will answer them promptly.
l7/o ^ ^
January 21, 1910.
Erarik L. Dyer, Esq.,
Orange, IT. J.
My- dear Mr. Dyer:-
Inasmuch .as some remarks have been made to me by
Mr. Wilcox, aB to the length of time consumed in getting my
color work into shape, and, as these remarks may reflect your
views, I think a summary of the work done and to be done is ■
called for.
When I first informed Mr. Wilcox that I had perfected
a color-photograph copying process, which would probably meet
the requirements of your industry, (your Mr. White and myself
had talked these matters over 3ome years ago) I felt and feel
today that, apart from the question of negatives on which you
already have my views, the problem was the manufacture of the
roll-film and that that was purely a mechanical one. As far
as the color is concerned 1 had then and have now no doubts.
I feel today that the vast majority, if not all, the points to
be worked out, have been worked out satisfactorily, and that
what remains i3 practically only routine work.
I was held up for a time, not knowing what the patent
office would say to my scheme. As far as the continuous roll
film is concerned no objection has been made and that claim is
F. L. D. #2.
declared, so far as known, allowable. They do make two objections
to my flat blocks for amateur use, one is an U. S. patent of 1894, in
which, aii individual’ 'builds up an imitation veneer and marble out
of sheets of 'glue, sticking rods into to give marble effects And
slicing it up, an analogy which it takes the Patent office to find
out. The other is Krayn method about which I reported to you in
my report on patents of February or March 190 8, and about which I
have no reason to change my opinion at the present day.
As soon as I have these two dooumsnts in extenso, Mr.
Barkley and myself will prepare the answer and let you have it.
X do not think that I will have any trouble to demonstrate the
fundamental difference, nothwithstanding the analogies.
X regret that my annexed report should be so long, but
it is only fair to you and fair to myself that we should know
where we are at.
I remain,
Yours very truly,
f ■ jj-JLw*-
Pol), n, 1010.
Mr. Shonos • Edicbn,
Port Myoro , Florida.
Dor.:.’ Mr. Edison:
EoGUrdinj; tho '.varaor- r-owrio color photographic
prcooso, 1 have had nono recort fcKblco and l tta-a from Mr.' towrio
cud 1 would line to have you. roniov.' tho ontiro tuation Y.£.uin
and advlco r:.o if you aro atill of ■'•Mo opinion, in view 0;? later
dcvolopnpntn, that tho entire propositi on ahonld Mo tamed down;
i.lirt I an 1:1 v.:o gr oatost roar oi‘ ia that the proocac
na.7 b 0 dovolopofi ranter thm you think caid 1. tor on we nay rind
otirbolvoo in tho position of having to pry >thc a royalty or
buying tho 00 lor noaoitlaod otoofc from Scntban'at a high prioo.
Of oouroo, tho oiiaplo and porhape tho boat human thine for nc to
do would bo to drop tho wholo nattor- aid roly upon Mr. Croono'o
royoi't In caao tho proeoarj chould later on prove ouoooocfal, but
1 would not do that, and 'went you to fully undoratand tho (situ¬
ation .00 that if ncooaaary it can bo turned fiov.n with tho fooling,
tint ouoooso ,io too roaoto to bo to lien into oorisidoration.
i’ho mount dirootly involved ia tho pcyrxrat of their
osponooo fron Marla to Orange and return and thoir onporinoutal
onponao whilo hero, the wholo not to cuccood $£5,000. Tho con-
Edison.
EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY S/C/lC.
si deration price of $1300,000. is of course enormous, "but I
■believe if noeoecary this tenant could bo handled in none fay
through tho Patents Comp ny co that all tho nonufQbturoro would
havo the right to uoo the grocoos and that tho other rights could
be diepoood of, no that the direct expense would not bo largo.
I also thlnfc that if v;o (jot tho so pooplo over hero no might' nako
so arrangement with thon to toko over only tho moving picturo
rights at a. lowor figvrO. Ey uholo nnsLoty in tho n. ttor io that
they hevo certainly produced a cood color ocroon adapt od to nov—
iag/piotiiro filoo, nd if tho photographic problems o:n bo solved
tho prooooo ought to bo practical, end I would hate to coo tho
invention in the her.de of a competitor.
In order th t you or. pass upon the whole situation, I
herd you the following letters . nd c blograno, which 2 h vo bound
together in order:
1- -ho original letter from V.'e.rnor and howrio, dated
beccnbor Blot, with letter and translation thereof from -Vr.tho’a
orqjort, all of rrhioh you have already soon.
2. ’ iiy letter to hr.1 i'ov.rio, datod January 12th,
giving your viowsas to the photographic difficulties-
Vs. ay letter to hr., sowrlc . 4/.’.tod January 20th, with
copy of hr. Greene’s report pointing out the difficulty of rapid
osrooouro- and tho impossibility of using narrow lena aporturcs,
which aro necessary in tho moving pioturo art.
4. Cablegram from hr. Powrio stating that ho had
orposod twenty motors of Eastman film full -tino at twenty per
ooeond through Mo color ocroon and that ho could demonstrate
this with a film having a aolor cq<oon dirootly thoroon.
5. ■ l.iy oablo to ill'. Powrio inii roply asking him to
• a end uo treaty actors of noviac picture noeativo at SO per oooond
ciiti a color p3.-j.11t thorofrom with emulsion 011 tho noroon.
G. IJy letter of January -Slot, confirming the loot
cahlogran.
V. Cahlogran from hr. p carlo to no of January 3Sad,
stating that ho cannot naho the negativo rad positive roqii&stfcd
tjircugh laol: of facilities! , which ivo statos no 'ti&yfi at Orange.
G. hcttcrc from hr. Pov.rio dated January SGrd roply-
iriG- to r. Crocno’o roporfc rad divine & canplo of a pooitivo
print ohtnino. from 'a negative or:poaod through tJxcir sercon.
lease rcas.ro vex. uhis letter o refill y, heesuso it gives their
iiloan -o to overcoming th--. uiffic rltioa you havo had.
9. hy letter to .a- v.’owric of "oorurry 1st, ashin g
him to cable his opinion of lr. Grccno’s report.
10. Cablegram from nr. fowrla to no oil .'.Ir* C-rccnc * s
roporu. svaiing tr. t the objootions cm 00 ovorcono.
-j-* ’ deport from hr. Grcor.o doted february Krd , which
- ap-.ci..lly requested him to xv rro and in which, apparently,
iri.j v-ao./C arc rjomov/rr.r moiiaiiod. In other word.?. , I. understood
Iiir.i originally to holieve thattSho photographic difficulties v;oro
00 Groat tliQt no roasonahlo hope, of success could' ho -expected,
hut I now undorctrnd that ho fools that under sono conditions
with a vory intense light' satisfactory rosultp night ho orpootod.
I wish you would road over those payors and lot me Imow
what you- t.hinh should he done. Personally, I havo a fooling
that if they, cr.mo over hero they would find, that they would
encounter difficulties that thoy do not now soo, and it would ho
unplbasant for me to fool that I he.d hoon too inclstont in having
the. ouporinont triod out. I thereforo put tho wholo thing up'
E. Kdioon. ’ . . ,C(^,L C0Hp,NV 2/3/ 1C.
to you and if you nay not to go ahead. any further than I have
aono then I will dinnioc it from ny mind ,:nd think no mono ah out
it.
I wish you would tolcyrnn no what you dooido go that I
•eon oaklo l'r. fowrio .prompt ly.
'fours very truly,
hue-
[FROM WILLARD C. GREENE]
D
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Pob.
1910.
lie. Prank L. Dyor,
Edison nufacturinc; Co. ,
Orange, II. J.
Dear Oil’:
Ac roquoatod, I h. vc roviowod the ocxTOspcn&cnoo end
t'i a.l in ro i/i!i*nor-'Jov;ric process, and In view o i cuoli
Civo the j.cllo-.lnc opinion au to the possible adaptability to
the ."inctoscopo v/orli.
Ii’ lor. Pov/rio lias sonsiticod Eootn.-. n film go that it is
oeual in value g to the ' x\ tton- iiii xi£,ht plato lie ha;: px-cduood
; sufficiently ooncitivo surfreo fox- oinonatocraphy in colors.
Ueinc color oo.- oon film without conponsatinc filter
( probabl; • by incorpora.ti nf; a miitnblo yellow dye-stuff in the
ooncitisor) roduocs the nooo:;:..a.ry onpoesuro vory riHjcri.-l’’ y
but noclootri the necessity of oeixoonsi.vfcion due to variable l:l£ht.
Thoco two conditions combined vith tho uoo of lone syotc.- □ work¬
ing at the osctojwe^ e.port urea of P-3.15 to P-4. 5 would cortainly
permit of fully timed erpoouros .
If th.o question of aulioro.iec nny bo absolutely elimi¬
nated, as hr . Powrio claims, the prooooo in one to two years timo
oucht to boeono a dangerous buoinooc proposition in tho bonds of
c. comp'otitor.
Undor tho conditions epeCifiod above, I continue to doubt
that tho order of wort done could approach tho standard require¬
ments of the Edison Ainotoseopo film oorvieo for several years.
Also, I wish to omphasizo tho fact that thoro aro to¬
day at loast five other similar odor dovioes pcx’foetod which
likewise may bo applicable to hlnotosoopo film- Of all tho
(2)
prooonsoB, ono cortr.lnly ornnot tut : dniit tho v<r.raor-l?OT7rio to
to in tlie noot ndvinood otato of nooh nic:tl porfootion to-day.
Youtd roapootfally,
Eeb. 4, 1910.
Mr. Dyer:
In Re Edison-Braoseur Color-Photography Contract.
In my opinion the contract "between Mr. "Edison and
Mr. Brasseur gives Mr. Edison the following rights:
1. An exclusive license to use in connection with
the moving picture industry exclusively, all patented and
unpatented inventions and improvements adapted for use
in color-photography as applied to the moving picture industry,
which Mr. Brasseur has made or may make up to the time the
contract ceases to he in force, subject to royalty
conditions. Your letter Mr. Brasseur of March 13, 1908, states
that Mr. Edison is to have all inventions which Mr. Brasseur
has made, or may make of the specified kind during the term of
the contract .
2. The exclusive right to license others to use the
inventions and improvements as set forth in paragraph 1.
3. The right to any improvements which Mr. Brasseur
may make at any future time connected with making a commercial
success of the inqprovements and inventions as set forth in
paragraph 1, provided such future improvements are not in¬
ventions, and provided Mr. Edison can obtain knowledge as to
what these improvements are. I fail to see how Mr. Brasseur
can he .made to disclose any future improvements of the kind
specified which he may make, hut no one hut Mr. Edison could
use the same if they are found to he subject to the improvements,
Mr. 3?. L. 33. -2-
the exclusive license to which Mr. Edison has already-
acquired. If Mr. Brasseur patents future improvements,
Mr. Edison would have no rights therein as the patents would
Be evidence of invention and Mr. Edison has acquired only
inventions made during the life of the contract.
If the question arises in the future as to whether
a certain improvement was invented previous or subsequent
to the time when the contract ends (March IS, 1910 ? ) the
burden of proof will be on Mr. Edison to show that the
invention was made prior to the cessation of the contractural
relation. Mississippi 01a3s Co. vs. Eranzen, 138 E.R. 924,
143 E.R. 501-506. It is essential, therefore, that
Mr. Edison get as much evidence as possible as to what
Mr. Brasseur has accomplished. Mr. Greene's report of
January 20, 1910, does not appear to be very explicit on this
Point.
Mr. Chariots 1,. liraccour,
116 Eromont Ave . ,
Or. ngo, J.
Dear Llr. Braooour:
Aftor moct oaroful consideration I havo con¬
cluded that wo cannot orfcond the arrangement o with you beyond
the prooont year ending March 10, 1010. ahnt io the date of
your original contract with uo ao of the yoar 19 08, • nd wee •
aocoptod by ny letter f Maroh 13, 1008. Ehcoo tv;o lotterc,
v/ith tho exception of tlio modification arrengod verb- lly bo two cn
:”rV pilooro and yourself rnd mentioned in your letter of March
17th, 1900, to mo, conpriood all tho contract o wo h-.ye roltting
to thin mot-tor. At the time tho proposition woe originally out
to mo it wac your expectation that in one yoar you would bo .able-
to o enrol otr ly dovolop tho procooo, and tho peccability of having
to o:-rt end tho expert men to for tho torn of ; nothor yoar wao con-
oidorod vory remote. ■ 1 hivo oonoludod from what 'investigations
I can n ire. into tho matt or and from tho roporto of others that
tho commercial poacibility of tho .procooo ic-.oo far in tho
future oo not to warrant us to continuo tho proaont • arrangoinont ,
and it ic for 'this roncen ontiroly ta
j \ hrii! 1 h. .vo olootod to torrii-
Ch., rlc o . Bras sour. Et>,S0N MANUrAo^uw,io 2/7/1910.
nath tho same on liar h 10, 1910.
In this conncotion I should perhnpc formally notify you
that under the contracts as evidenced hy tho lottoro ahovo roforrod
to, i,Ir. Edison having complied with all the conditions inposod
upon him is ontitlod to tho oxoluoivo right to use in connection
with tho moving picture business any inventions thtt you may .
hayo made prior to tho dato of the contract anu during tho contract
period, pi-ovidod, of courso, ho pays the royalties contomplatod
hy tho oontraot. I make this claim non on lir. Edison's bohalf
in order that there may bo no misunderstanding in tho futuro.
Regarding tho osporimontal 'apnaratus and other' property
of tho company in your charge, I do not know v bother you would '
caro to buy those things or tuarivsthern back to us, but I wish
you would toko up this matter with iir. Wilson and arrange tho
details in connection therewith. Eho experimental ©p-w.r: tus is
not particularly valuable - to us and may possibly bo to you, and
I should be vory glad to lot you have it at a reasonable figure
and in fact to do : 11 in my power to onablo you to carry on your
oxperimonts in othor linos or along tho same lino if you desire-
Should you continue the oxporinonts at your own expense and event¬
ually develop tho invention co that it may become possible in
tho moving picture buoirioss, then of course I will bo very glad
.to "toko up the jnattor vrith you and if wo docido to adopt tho
prooosc we will provide for tho royaltios contomplatod by tho
contract.
Yours vory truly,
FLD/lWV:
Vico-Trcsidont .
-89.9. ..
MEMORANDUM
to. Scull: 3/0/10.
I hnntl you liorowitli memorandum from hr. losola to Ur.
'Color regarding tho waterproof filn, v:hioh you i jll plor.r.o i'ilo
ar.uy e'cnjfid ontially. rJZ. not frr.-yt to t. v,r, the natter "ith
--"~>oao:', ;:.n& v.oo that ho trios out lr. Csssla's suggestion
c£ using a S;“» acetic acid solution Co:.: treating tho films leforo
they arc terproofed. Aoocrdi.jg to Mr. Colo::, thin treatnont
Tno.i:oE tho tptorproofod f.iln stick vory muoli mere tonaei ously
' \ the haso th.-n when plain wntor is uaod. I have mentioned the
ter to .Mr. Jamoaon, hut you rant to seo that it io carried out
S'h: t comprehensive wear tosts r.rc made "by Iir. Gall so that
X ho ouro it is all right .
(2)
Also arrange with Dt. lossla to file an application
on this suggestion and havo it assigned to tho Edison Mfg. Co.
HiU/lOT/ P. 1. 3.
MEMORANDUM
:l3i-8 -
Mr. Willard C. Groene: s/s/lO.
I have just received word from our agent in
Paris that the preliminary contract with Ur. Powric and Hiss
V/arner has boon signed and that they will probably roach this
country about tho 15th of March. Ploaso have everything in
roadiness for them. I suggest that you begin to clean out the
Galvan omoter Hoorn so as to have it ready for them in ordor that
wo will not wasto time in clearing it up after they come. Of
course it will not be nocossary to mako any arrangements regarding
partitions, because I agree with you that wo ought to allow this
to bo decided by them, „
1329
MEMORANDUM o,.*noE.
A
Hckort : s/14/ir;.
Arrangononta hr.V9 been made with ilr. Bras sour
whoroby he is to continue operations as at present up to April
10th, at which time hie aalary and expenses with us aro to be
diacontin: od, unless you aro otherwise instructed.
FKD/lWW
I- D.
[FROM HORACE G. PLIMPTON]
#257
March 18th, 1910.
LIGHTING
It was arranged that Messrs. Green, Oliver, and
AiTii tags would constitute a committee for the Improvement of our
light applied to each particular soene to he taken within the next
10 days or two weeks. This question will involve the use of differ¬
ent screens which Mr. Oliver is to take up immediately as to various
thicknesses of oloth.
DEVELOPING _
Mr. Green is to associate himself with Mr. Armitage to¬
ward questions of developing and particularly the making of tost
pieces of the negative. He is also with Mr. Oliver to make testa
of positive prints under different lights.
RBC0KD3
Mr. Green has offered to start a system of filing com¬
prising negative test pieces, the negative as finally developed
also seotions of positive. Upon the completion of this system at
the time that he leaves the studio it is hoped that it will he
in suoh operation that we can take oare of It.
H. Or. P.
I am sending the above qis a short resume of our oonfsrence
of Wednesday afternoon in order to have the matter on record. you
will understand that we are sending a copy to you simply that you
my he in possession of the facts.
Copies to Messrs. Green, Oliver, Armitage.
P-K
Llocoro. ffad&oll, SoM£flt Call and fcroono
p
liio >h.p.
Regarding tho proposed Houoohoia projecting
machine, as a rosult of our oonforonoe and in ox’dor to mako m£
a matter of record, tho following mncJiincs roqtd.ro to ho aooignod
in tho Unginooring Department:
(1) Tho proposod project ins mochanion is to ho provided
with a hotter form of foe dins dovico for tho film, proforuhly a
star whool mechanism if posoihle, giving on 0 to 1 food. Ur.
Gall in to dosisn this under Ur. Schiffl's dirootion and a samplo
mado as coon as possible.
(2) A stripping machino for stripping or c loaning old
omtiloion from colluloid stock. so ho designed hy Hr. Groono
under Hr. SeMffl's direction. I understand ffcofc Hr. Greene has
his ideas pretty well workod out.
(S) Ooatinc machino for applying now emulsion to cel¬
luloid stock. To ho dosignod hy I, Jr. Groonc under Hr. Scliiffl's
direction.
(4) Cutting machino for cutting film to corroct width
and perforating same. I unaorstand that Ur. loomis has already
huilt a temporary machine for this purpose. If this temporary
maohino will have suffioiont capacity for our purposos and is
otherwise 0. E. , a now machino will not ho nooossaiy, hut if not
a now machino should ho dosignod. Ur. Gall will dosign tho
now rnohino under Ur. Schiffl's direction.
{E) A nogatlvo roduoing maohino for making an inter¬
mediate sisod nogativo hy photographio projootion from throo
standard also positivos* So ho worked out hy Ur- Gall under Ur.
Sohiffl's direction and in consultation with Ur. Groono.
(6) A positive printing maohino for printing small
siao positivos from an intermediate ciso nogatiyo by photographic
projection, probably similar to Ho. 5. 2o bo worked out by Hr.
Gall undor Hr. Schiffl's dirootion.
(7) A now lamp bouse and other dotails. Bo be worked
out by Hr. Gull undor Hr. Sohiffl's dirootion.
Hr. Waddoll is to bo kept informed as to the dovolop-
mont of the above machines, and after drawings are finished,
boforo sample is started, I wish to bo advisod in order to approve
tho same.
I understand that Hr. Groono has already obtuinod
samples of a suitable Ions from tho Gponcor Ions Go. of Buffalo.
Bin extra lonsos should bo ordorod for experimental purposes.
Hr. Groono should got in touch with tho Gorman manufacturers to
sco if those lonsos can bo obtained in Gormcny at a hotter price,
and if so, in what amounts and at what cost. Hr. Groono will
also soo if chaupor lonsos cannot bo obtainod, which, while not
boing absolutely porfoot, may bo good enough for our purpose ,
and report thereon as soon as possible.
Hr. V/addoll is to obtain from tho Bornst lamp Co. two
or throo samples of tho oxaot form of llomot lcr^p ho proposes to
uso, in ordor that the samo may bo demonstrated. If thooo
ITemst lamps oannot bo obtainod complete, tho glowers and other
parts should be obtainod and worked up by hand.
Hr. V/addoll should keep after tho John V/. aimmons Co.
and got the saraplo of special generator as soon as possiblo in
ordor that it may be tostod out.
Hr. Groono is to make up a apbeial pocitivo by hand as
soon as possiblo for demonstrating purposes .
Please acknowledge recoipt of .thooo instructions .in order
that x may know that they will ho Tveanmtlv nnrHntl mrfc. v_ —
Orange , IT. f.
My dear Mr. Scull
1 have your letter of the 18th, for
which I ain very much obliged. I am writing Mr. Selig
to-day.
IVe will experiment with the wet process
for titles. Our people seem to think that they can
get good results with the dry plate, hut there is
certainly no harm in experimenting.
Yours very truly,
Kinetograph Dept. ,
ee/bb
picture finder, and informed him that you were
going to secure a number of those, and would let
u's have two or three of them. Kindly let uo know
when we can expect these?
I have been expecting to get out to Orange,
but there are so many things coining tip, that I am.
afraid to leave.
Let me know how things are going on the
little machine, and make us a call when you can find
the leisure.
Yours very truly,
Edison Manufacturing Co. ,
P.s. is there any news of the KlnatophoneJL±udio ,
"Planter " lens. T/e are badly
in need of it. Manager In Charge.
<^3jiomao CL Cdlan
EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE. N. J.
EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES AND FILMS.
Hr. 7/illiard 0. Green®,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange , N. J.
Boar friend Greene,
I herewith enclose a blue print of
the Norst lamp, which I wish you would turn over to
Mr. Gaul. Explain to him that this drawing is full
size, and oorreot, with exception of the length, which
should be six inches instead of six and one-half.
Mr. Hahn brought this drawing in this afternoon,
and discussed the letter received by both of us, yesterday.
I would like to talk this matter over with you,
and it might be well if we could all get together Mondsy
or Tuesday night.
Yours very truly
Messrs. Sail, Gi^Jen, Wardell & Files
Please note that Mr. Dyer wishes to Bee us next
Saturday morning (tomorrow) in his office at 9:30, to talk
over the Household Projecting Kinetosoope and the machinery
that is neoessary to manufacture the film.
0. Sohiffl.
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MEMORANDUM
Soull: 6/1/10.-
I hand you herewith memorandum from Hr. Edison re gar d-
laking an experiment with a special film. Mr. Smith has
^led an application for a patent on this arrangement and I
suggest that you get hold of the application and read it up;
then take up the matter with Mr. Sohiffl and Mr. Gall and arrange
to have a demonstration made on an experimental scale. This
we can show, to Mr. Edison. /
fld/iwy
F. L. D.
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Our machines are simple to operate and the mechanism will not get out of
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PRINCIPAL MODELS OF IKONOGRAPH HOME MOVING-PICTURE MACHINES
[FROM WILLARD C. GREENE]
July 21, 1910.
Mr. W. E. Waddell,
645 West 455rd Street,
TTew York City.
Dear Mr. Waddell
Have oorae aown to Pittsburg to take up personally the
natter of Wernst lamp, as the sample whioh Mr. Horn forwaraea to you
ana you forwarded to me made such a very unfavorable impression on Mr.
Pyre ana Mr. Skull that it seemed necessary to do something raaical. ■
Mr. Harris has taken me in hand personally and every effort
is being bent to the remodeling of the entire lamp, and along such
lines as will unquestionably serve of greater purposes of usefulness
in our direction.
I have thought it advisable, after talking with Mr. Harris,
to increase the wattage of the lamp from 66 to 88, thereby giving us
a greater amount of candle power and, therefore, greater illumination.
The heater design, and likewise the glower, w£ll be entirely
remodeled and will be of much more positive character.
The housing will be enlarged in diameter and in length, but
by so doing we can go back to the sorew -type of holder, whioh will in¬
sure a much more positive seating of same, whioh is, of course, with us
absolutely indispensable.
I trust that in such matters the changes as I have, after
consulting Mr. Harris and his engineer, thought best to embody in this
lamp, will not meet with your disapproval.
I hope to be back In Orange by Monday at the latest ana will
look you up at the very first opportunity, for I know that your inter¬
est in the matter of this lamp is not second to mine.
Prom Pittsburg I am going to Buffalo to look up lens matters
ana will have something, undoubtedly, to bring away with me; so that the
assembling of the small machine next week can go on ana assume a more
finished appearance.
With vexy best regards.
Farbenfabriken of Elberfeld Co.
P. O. Box 2162
Telephone. 313 Franklin
D
117 HUDSON STREET \°[ |q
JU We* A, July 27, 1910.
Mr. Willard C. Greene,
c/o Laboratory of Thoms A. Edison,
Orange , MEW JERSEY.
Lear Sir:-
Referring to your visit at our office the latteijpart of
June concerning colors for sensitizing purposes placed on the market
by our German House , v;e are advised that they are offering the three
following colors for sensitizing purposes: Homocol, Perikol and
Icocol.
The color, Homocol, we carry in stock here regularly. The other
two colors are not sold in the American market. V/e requested our
friends to send us a small commercial package of each, but they de¬
cline to do this on account of the high price of the colors. However,
they advise that if you wish a small quantity they will supply these
two colors to us at the rate of §4.00 per gram.
Please let us know what you wish us to do in the matter, and oblige
Very truly yours
FAEBEHP APR I KEH OP ELRE^AbD CO.
DOTT. LUIGI 5ASSI
FIRENZE - Borgo S. S. Apostoli, 1
( Italy )
Florenz, 30 / 7 / 1910
it*
Eminent Mr. Th - Edison
rkzar
q3ex osra I
I had some short notJfoe of yours invention to obtain natural's
coloured films.
ft- J i«W% Vlvfvt
ThiB being very int^raatigg^ for me and . wishing to mentionit in
cT oQ5-- fr'SL
ieadv's P. — - — a nj®* -
ny treated of "Steady's Projections and 0i5
now published I shall^be’ ^^d^^o^ou^i f you
tographings that will be
tell me some=
thing about to have an idea more olear *E£at from, the newspapers, I find
also another invention of yours, to obtain the photograph's impression
on film’s edges to reacts the absolute synchronisms.
If also of this invention you oan give me some explanation I
shall be very oblige to you.
I am very sorry to give you all this truble.but the desire that
I have to note in my book all what oonoern Cinematograph's and Phono=
graph's most recently inventions,! find that the best thing was to apply
to the Eminent author of the moBt wondrous disooverys of the XIX age,
the same Inventor of the wonderings instruments who reproduce trutfully
mouvements and sounds.
I hope that you will do me this immense favour, and Ithank you
beforehand.
At soon the book will be published I shall send you a copy. '
With my best regards
yours sincerely
OXY-ACETYLENE CUTTING AND WELDING Harrison
Oot. 24, 1910.
Mr. Willard C. Greene,
c/o Laboratory, ThoB. A. Edison,
Orange, IT. X.
Lear Sir:-
Please advise me when it would he convenient for
you to examine the small Pressure Generator .which you desired us
to construct.
I will he out of the City on Thursday, hut prob¬
ably oould see you on Wednesday, or Eriday, if you wish.
Awaiting your reply, I am.
714/AL/S
Yours respectfully,
dav!^bou!;,:o;ivil)^com
«^u .^JUC L W- cU-~OL c, ^
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EDISON MANUFACTURING CD.
EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCDPES AND FILMS.
Nov. 4, 1910'.
Mr. Willard Green,
Edison laboratory,
Orange, H. J.
My dear Mr. Green:
Referring to our conversation of several
days ago relative to the three lens condensing system, I
regret to say that I will he unable to loan you this condenser
system just now, owing to the fact that one of the lenses has ?
been placed in a piece of apparatus. I regret to have to
advise you of this state of affairs on this proposition, but
it had entirely slipped my mind that we had previously used
a portion of this condenser.
I will visit the Works to-morrow Saturday,
and if possible call on you and explain more fully this matter
Trusting that this will find you in the
best of health, I wish to remain.
Very truly yours,
HTO/i
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NELSON GOODYEAR, INC.
NEW YORK
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Edison Mfg. Co.
Orange, IT. j.
Gentlemen: -
Deo. 30th, 1910.
bometime ago we sent you an experimental acetvl®n»
pressure generator for use in connection with a Bunsen burner
and refractory button for projection purposes, which you were
\es£ a?d isvor us with your comments upon same. ™e beg
??e that have under construction another small
acetylene generator which is built to take the place of the
findW+bn+ y°u. n0w haT® ln Use- In the meantime, however, we
that wf ^ve need of the experimental generator formerly
oent .you and therefore ask that you kindly return it to us y
S”" 14 the »“»“■ *•
this SLS11 fi°a 14 to oblige «. in
1910. Patents (D-1 0-49)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
foreign and domestic patent applications, patent litigation, and other patent
matters. Among the items for 1910 are letters concerning federal patent
legislation; Edison's involvement in the patent activities of his Legal
Department; and various storage battery, cement, and phonograph patents.
Many of the letters are to or from Frank L. Dyer, president and general counsel
of the National Phonograph Co. Also included is a 21 -page report containing
abstracts of patent applications abandoned by Edison during the period 1876-
1885. A draft of this report, in the hand of William H. Meadowcroft, appears in
Thomas A. Edison Papers: A Selective Microfilm Edition, Part I, 8: 526-547.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include routine letters of inquiry, receipts, correspondence
concerning accounts with attorneys, letters of transmittal and acknowledgment,
and items that duplicate information in selected material.
MEMORANDUM
_JLa85L_
7
Holdon: 2/v/lO.
I hand you herewith letter from Congraanman Currier of
tho Conmittoe on Potent a of tho House of Eopresonte.tivoo, dated
FCb. 4th, giving mo copies of tho various Bills ponding hofore his
Commit too relating to patents. I have looked over those Bills
and I do not sec anything particularly oh.ioctionahlo in theft,, hut
I wish you would consider tho nu tter and aloe discuss, it with ilr.
Dyko and lot mo Jmow if you ooo anything that wo should ohjoot
to.
fid/hvt;
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F. 1. B.
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MEMORANDUM
Mr. Dyer Smith: 4/26/10.
I hand you herewith memorandum from Hr- Edison on
tho subject of now applications, which I wish you would tako right
up for preparation.
I think tho second point has boon covered, oxcept possi¬
bly the specif io suggestion of using bismuth with a nickel hydroxide
in alkaline electrolyte containing lit hi 3. My rocollootion is
that tho use of bismuth and lithia are covored in separato patents.
%. Edison may bo able to givo reasons why the two co-operate so
as to warrant a combination claim.
I think tho third paragraph has also boon covered, but
(2)
am not sure-
Eho fourth suggestion has been covered in at least one
patent.
Iho elghtht suggestion has also boon covered.
Find out from Mr- Edison what tho now phonograph appli¬
cations are and go right ahead with their preparation. You will
note that he brings up again tho question of using Boron as a
matorial for reproducing point.
ELB/lTO F. 2i. D.
[FROM FRANK L. DYER]
Replying to your memorandum of the 21st inst. , I am sorry
to soe the issue of these patents, and particularly the patent to
MacDonald, Ho. 957,6^4. This is the esaot construction we had.
in mind for providing a universal mounting for our pivoted arm.
I wish you wouia take up this matter immediately with Mr. Schiffl
and discuss the question with him as to what kind of connection we
can use. Possibly wo may have to ubc the Boswell patent aftor
all, "but if we can employ some such nrrangomont as that described
by MacDonald I think it would bo better. At any rate, the matter
1b of very great importance ana I wish you wouia take it up imme¬
diately with Mr. Schiffl ana let me know what you decide oan be
done after you have discussed all the questions with him.
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
24,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. '"'(CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD.
U'l
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It ! 11910
Pearson , Georgia , July, 8th. 1910-efg
Mr. Thos.A.Ed ison ,
Orange, a.J.
Dear Sir:-
Have you any advice of the passage by congress of
a law effective July, 1st. l9lO, prohibiting the issuring of
caveats to inventors by the Patent Office?
Your reply will be highly appreciated .
Respectfully,
Enc-efg .
W^.ed
1835 r\f\ MEMORANr)1UM
M'"' '
Hr. Holden: iz/zz/io.
You will note from the attached letter of tho 15th
inst. from tho Foroign Department that our agent in Spain for
the Storage Battery|(Mr. Ianda) has obtained what he calls
"Patents of Introduction" in that country. Apparently those
patents simply give him the exclusive right of manufacture
for five years ana will not prevent importation into Spain
from tho Uni tod States. I .wish you would look into thio
matter and adviso mo if this is so, because I would not like
to have him obtain a patent that would embarrass us in our
efforts to develop the Spanish territory from here.
FID 117, V? F.I.D.
Mr. Smith; 12/?.:5/ 10.
Hefcrring to your note of the 22nd Inst., I hardly, think
it worth while to attempt to buy the patent to. Robinson for the
following reasons:
1» It has not boon definitely decided to onoloso the
open side of the; speaker as Mr. Saloon proposes. ""non that huo
been dofinitoly decided tho question of buying the Robinson patent
can be considorod.
2. 1 do not think Mr. Edison's suggestion infringes
the Robinson patent. Robinson slidos his cap over the body of
tho spoakor and holds it in plaoo frictionally. Both the
D.S.-2
second and third olnims aro limited to tho fact that tho cap is
"adapted to slidably fit over and covor ono side of tho reproducer
of the phonograph". Mr. Edison's device is simply a spherical
containing box entirely surrounding the reproducer and not fitted
to it; this strikes mo as boing a different invention.
3- She idea of muffling the sounds developed at tho
opon side of tho diaphragm is very old, and I think you will find
a number of Edison patontu disclosing this. Perhaps there arc
other patents. Che suggestion has of ton boon developed in tho
laboratory and is ono of tho common thoughts of the phonograph
businoss. Ho doubt Mr. Piorman or Fred Ott oan givo you a
good deal of Information on this point.
FID/lOT
F. 1. D.
SUBJECT MATTER 01’ UK. EDISON' S
ABANDONED APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS IN YEARS
1876 to 1885, INCLUSIVE.
SERIAL ITUIIBER-I
Case #121
June 30, 1876. Q.uadruplex: This seems to
cover the entire quadruplex system, bridge
method, including compensating condensers,
one forming pert of the bridge wire, the
other forming part of a shunt around the
artificial line.
Case #123
Aug. 23, 1876. Acoustic Telegraph: The
combination in a telegraph instrument of
one magnet and two or more reeds, tuning
forks or strings.
Case #126 Dec. 13, 1877. Acoustic Telegraph:
Closed circuit in which acoustic trans¬
mitter produces rise and fall of tension;
receiver in local circuit operated by al¬
ternating currents and induction coil
interposed between circuits.
Case #128 Dec. 24, 1877. Acoustic Telegraph:
Iron or steel diaphragm secured to a
steel case, also resonant tube variable in
length to adjust column of air to tone of
transmitter .
-1-
S.N. 158
Hov. 8, 1878. Telephone : Transmitting
positive and negative currents hy varying
resistance of transmitter in combination
with '.'.'heat stone bridge.
-io. 166 Dec. 9, 1878. Electric Light: Layers of
incandescent metal and intervening pyroin-
sulation- and thermal circuit regulator.
(Forfeited)
Ho. 172 March 10, 1879. Candles or Conductors for
ELBotric Light: Candles, or conductors,
formed of metallic oxides, by powdering
and moulding. Material may be powdered
and mixed with sugar, Tor, Silica, or sim¬
ilar material and subjected to heat to cause
the particles to adhere and burn out the
intermixed material. Oxides of cobalt
and nickel mentioned. Also, Silicon, Boron
and 'Zirconium. Conducting powder may be
brought to incandescence by filling tubes
of Zircon, Magnesia, Lime, etc., with the
powder and compressing between two metallic
end pieces, such as platinum or Iridium.
Also mentions native alloy of Osmium and
Iridium, called Iridosomine , - can be used
this way.
Reissue March 20, 1879. Perforating Pen: This is
an abandoned application for Reissue for
Patent Ho. 203,329.
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S.N. 10,615
ii.r. 114/26
2206
E.1T. 14,130
S.1I. 4208
S.1J. 4209
June 2, 1879: Telephone : This is another
division of case 178, (see page 9 of my
abstracts.)
July 7, 1879. Telegraph Lines . This case
was assigned to Edison Electric Eight Co.
and substitute specifications were filed
March 30, 1086. It covers underground
conductors placed in metal tubes lined with
insulating material, bringing them into in¬
tersecting boxes and connecting together
there. Also covers the drav;ing of v/ires
through line of pipes by cords and pulleys.
This application clearly outlines the mod¬
ern practice of drawing conductors through
underground conduits by men stationed at the
boxes. Rejected on Eng. Pats. 96 of 1066;
3006 of 1863; 2091 of 1873; 1944 of 1876.
Sept. 8, 1879. Medicinal Preparation.
To produce anesthetic effects upon the nerves
of animals by external application to obtain
relief from pain.
Pec. 11, 1879. Carbons . Making filaments
from bristol board- enlarged ends.
Bee. 15, 1879. Phonograph: Longitudinal
slit for holding tinfoil and several other
mechanical details.
Pec. 15, 1879. Phonograph: This application
covers a revolving plate or disk to receive
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Case
188
E .11. 10862
S.N. 11,243
the metal foil. Disk is placed horizontal¬
ly and. is mounted on a vertical revolving
shaft. The surface of the disk is provid¬
ed with spiral groove or grooves, and metal
foil is secured to the disk by a hinged
ring frame. The speaking apparatus is upon
an arm fitted to move both vertically and
horizontally, and the disk is on a shaft
that con be connected or disconnected from
the motor at pleasure. Nomenclature j "phon¬
ograph"; "Phonogram" and "phonet".
(Only two actions in this case. Re¬
jections were merely on technicalities
in the descriptions. Case was evident¬
ly dropped on account of ISp. Edison
being busy in electric light matters.
Second action was dated hay 2, 1882.)
Dec. 31, 1879. Telephone : Diaphragm having
metal arm resting upon revolving magnetized
bo.r upon which is a helix. (In interference
with Dolbear and decided in hie favor.)
hay 31, 1880. Dynamos . Adjustable resist¬
ance in combination with field magnets to
regulate current.
June 3, 1880. El. Railway. Broad, idea of
using two rails, partly or wholly as con¬
ductors, vehicle with motor having connec¬
tion with rails, stationary dynamos furnish¬
ing current .
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I
S.lf. 18,421 Oct. 1, 1880. Motors. Relates to means
for communicating motion from armature of
motor to the driven mechanism without use
of belts, gears, etc., to diminish speed.
First converting rotary motion of armature
into oscillating motion, then reconverting
the oscillating motion into rotary motion.
Asjuetable double pawl carrier and pitman;
adjustable connection between them to
vary throw epeed of pawl carrier. (For¬
feited)
S.H.. 18705 Oct. 6, 1880. Dynamos . Edison & Jolmson.
Keans for automatically cutting dynamo out
of circuit. Sleeve on dynamo shaft and
circuit breaker automatically operated, by
longitudinal movement of sleeve.
13. H. 19,844 Oct. 30, 1880. Dynamos, means for indicat¬
ing thermal and magnetic conditions of
dynamo or motor.
S.1J. 19,845 Oct. 30, 1880. Commutators. Whereby all
the coils, except the one in the neutral
point, remain in circuit, being connected
in multiple are, each coil remaining con¬
nected to circuit during rotation, except
while in neutral point. (Arranged in
echelon) .
S.1T. 19,846 October 30, I860. Manufacture of Carbon:
Method of forming carbon articles of defin¬
ite desired shape by cutting or shaping the
same from paper and carbonizing bwtween
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plates) , or forming hollow articles from
paper raaoho* , etc., with moulds and plunges
and carbonizing them. Flexible carbon
articles may be bo made.
5.11. 21095 Hov . 24, 1880. Equalizing Resistance of
Carbon. This wa.e assigned to The Edison
Electric Light Company, and a Substitute
Specification was filed Larch 15, 1894.
This covers the regular process of "treat¬
ing" carbons in carbon vapor.
S.h. 22,202 Deo. 14, 1880. Telegraph Apparatus. This
invention covers a relay without armature
and retractile spring by talcing advantage
of the expansion of iron when magnetized
and demagnetised. This relay consists of
a helix surrounding a vessel containing
mercury. The vessel is the core. A needle
in an insulating block is mounted in a
small tube forming part of vessel. This is
capable of fine adjustment. Sounder and
battery is in local circuit between vessel
and pin. (Last action was Letter from Ex¬
aminer, dated hov. 29, 1886, stating that
as requirement for working model had not
been complied with, no further action would
be taken until model was furnished.)
S.H. 22,501 Dec. 15, 1880. Incandescent Electric Lamp.
This application Deems to be an attempt to
elaborate upon the original Filament Patent
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■by going very thoroughly into the art and
endeavoring to tie up loose ends of the
earlier patent. It was strenuously contest¬
ed in the Patent Office until March 18,
1889, when final letter of rejection was
written. The case seems then to have been
abandoned.
S.E. 24,440
S.II. 34,392
Jan. 11, 1881. Carbons. Plating the
enlarged ends of oarbon filaments.
Jan. 17, 1881. Electric Lamp. Plating
ends of carbon filament to leading-in wires.
P.eb. 28, 1881. Carbons. Purified graphite
or plumbago pressed into moulds and carbons
cut therefrom.
March 5, 1881. System. Magnetic shunt
switch in scries lamps*
Hay 27, 1881. Drop Light: Two side pieces
with rod joining them at bottom. lamp
placed on this rod, which is insulated in
middle and capable of being turned over so
as to make lamp upside down. Frame suspend¬
ed by netal bands which pass over wheels or
rollers .
Hay 27, 1881. Electric Lamps. Carbon of
card-board, so formed as to have greater
radiating surface on its sides than upon its
edges.
H. 36,294 Juno 22, 1881. Rheostat ; Resisting
portions made of carbon. Invention s.lso
covers manner of uniting such carbon portions
to metal conductors by electro-plating
o.roundtbe joint.
II. 36,467 June 24, 1881. Electrical System for Rail¬
road Trains: Dynamo mounted on locomotive
driven by separate engine supplied with
steam from locomotive boiler. Lighting
circuits throughout the train and magnetic
brakes for each ear.
June 24, 1881. Carbons. Halving filaments
of long lengths of vegetable fibres to
occupy little space, by winding in conei-like
spiral.
!. 42,321 Sept. 19, 1881. Dynamo regulation: Ilethod
of cutting generator out of battery by
shunt .
I* 43,164 October 4, 1881. Distribution System;
This is a system for interiors, consisting
of combination with the main conductors
and house service box in street, of vertical
conductors running through the house, a.
service box on each floor, vertical conduc¬
tors passing through it, separate meters
for each consumer, and safety catch for
each floor,
Oot. 17, 1881. Telephone : Division
of application Ko . 178 of June 2, 1879,
made for purpose of separating matters not
ira interference. This covers a ring of
yielding material forming a seat for the
diaphragm, a device to prevent diaphragm
from slipping and a yielding presser acting
against surfaoe of diaphragm.
Oct. 17, 1881. Telephone; Also division
of Eo. 178. This division covers two
springs and electrodes between the springs,
to which electrodes an initial pressure
is applied, the same being modified by the
vibrations of the diaphragm.
bov. 11, 1881. Lamped Covers - U-shaped
clamps on leading- in-wires and band to slip
over after carbon is inserted.
ifov. 28, 1881. Thermo-Electric Battery;
Electroplating one element upon another,
as copper or silver on carbon. The whole
plate is covered and then the metal is
removed at edges by grinding, thus dividing
deposit into two layers, one on each side
of the plate. Heated at one end with hot
water and at the other a heat radiator of j
metal coo.ted with lamp black.
Hov. 28, 1881. Operating Electrical Appar-
atu_s; For placing apparatus (such as cigar
lighter) in a shunt around a resistance.
C. IT. 46,760
S.iT. 46,821
S'.M. 47,471
C. IT. 61,955
S .17. 65,234
S.K. 65,236
ITo v . 28, 1881. Arc Light: Arc lights in
Multiple arc with regulating mechanism con¬
trolled hy opposing solenoids or electro
magnets .
ITov. 29, 1881. system. Operating Eire and
incandescent lights in sane circuit.
Dec. 9, 1881. Lamps i Iiethafl of removing
moisture hy hdating during exhaustion.
Hay 20, 1882. Railway system for locali¬
ties where traffic is too light for ordin¬
ary steam railways, or where traffic is
limited to oertuin seasons, claims include
insulated car frame, eleutro-magnetic
traction device, and reverser controllable
from distance.
June 26, 1882. system: Iiethod of utilizing
high tension currents on main conductors
hy charging storage batteries in series,
which are discharged at low L.TT.P. on con¬
sumption circuits, in multiple arc. Entire
system outlined.
June 26, 1882. Secondary Battery: An
electrode made of filamentary lead, woven,
braided or otherwise formed into matB,
pressed solid.
June 26, 1882. Lamps : Use of phosphorous
anhydride for drying.
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S.l. 68,607
S.Lr. 68,608
5.K. 68,613
8*11. 68,624
S.N. 68,634
Aug. 7, 1882. lamps : Arranging carbons
eo that they shall have greater length
without corresponding increase of radiating
surface. Carbonized in compact spiral form
and placed vertically.
Aug. 7, 1882. Lamps: Method of silvering
one side or end to reflect light down.
Aug. 7, 1882. Art of Obtaining Oxygen:
Method consists of filtering air through
charcoal. A chamber or hollow sphere
consisting entirely of charcoal connected
with an air pump is enclosed in another
chamber also connected with an air pump.
This enclosing chamber is provided with
means for drying the air through inlet
tubes containing sulphuric acid and pum¬
ice. (Forfeited)
Aug. 7, 1882. Lamps: Method of cutting
and forming bamboo filaments.
Aug. 7, 1882. Regulation of Generators:
Brushes of machine are attached to a pivot¬
ed arm having a spiral spring at eaoh end.
At one end is the armature of an electro¬
magnet connected in main or derived circuit.
The electro-magnet varies in strength in
accordance with changes of load and shifts
commutator brushes accordingly.
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S.K. 68,641 Aug. 7, 1882. Operating Motors and Genera¬
tors : Method of connecting the armatures
in series in the sane circuit, and of ar¬
ranging field ooils of each machine in
shunt around its armature coils, and means
for regulating each machine independently.
8.Lr. 68,644 Aug. 7, 1882. Regulation of Generators:
Device for throwing counter ls.M.3?. into
field of generator by electro-magnets con¬
nected together and with commutator bars
and revolving commutator brushes, operated
by independent electric motor and governor.
8.11. 68,645 Aug. 7, 1882. Electro Magnetic Railway
Engine : Covers use of adjustable resist¬
ance to vary speed of motor; and compound
winding on motor to compensate for changes
of Counter E. U. F. (Last action in 1891)
S.1T. 68,649 Aug. 7, 1882. Electro -Magnetic Railway
Engine : Method of connecting and discon¬
necting driven axles from motors by belt
or other flexible connection and friction
clutch mounted on countershaft, in combina¬
tion with slowing down gearing.
5.11. 69,253 Aug. 14, 1882. Manufacture of Inc ande Being
Conductors : Forming sheets of nitro-cellu-
lose by dissolving and flowing on glass;
pressing between steel plates; then cutting
filaments and carbonising, or carbonising
sheets and cutting filaments afterwards.
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69,256
69,264
Aug. 14, 1882. Secondary Battery; por
tberno static device, such as lamp or heating
resistance, to prevent solution from freez¬
ing.
Aug. '14, 1882. Electric Railroad: This
relates to insulating the roils and spikes
v/itli Japan, baked, also to providing an
insulating cushion for- the rails, composed
of cloth or other flexible material, Japan¬
ned and baked.
IS . E . 71,757
S.E. 71,762
Aug. 25, 1882. Ore Separator: Machine for
separating particles of free gold or other
non- magnetic substances. Hard rubber cylin¬
der and rubbing pad.
Sept. 13, 1882. Dynamos : Jumbo type with
converging pole pieces.
Sept. 13, 1882. Secondary Batteries:
Electrodes for lead storage battery each
formed of a number of strips of lead, each
of such strips being first twisted by it¬
self, and all the strips being then tv/isted
into a bundle. In this way the active
material is held in place. (forfeited)
Sept. 22, 1882. Dynamo : Compound winding.
One limb wound with coarse wire which is
placed directly in one of the main conductor
from commutator. The other limb wound with
fine wire and connected in multiple with
mains, - a rheostat also in the Bame circuit
in multiple.
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£5.K, 72,524
8.15. 72,526
S . IT . 73,556
5. IT. 74,474
5. IT. 74,783
Sept. 22, 1882. Manufacture of Damps;
Providing lamp with residual atmosphere
of cyanogen gas.
Sept. 22, 1882. System of Distribution ;
Covers the grounding of consumption cir¬
cuits in feeder system for economy of
metal. (Allowed 0ot. 18/82 hut Forfeited)
(nothing cited against this)
Oct. 6, 1882. Acoustic Telegraph: The
receiver instead of being placed in the
main line is placed in a local circuit
at the receiving station and is connected
with the main line through an induction
coil, v/hereof the primary is included in
the ifiain line and the secondary in the
local receiver circuit.
Oct. 17, 1882. Dynamo : non- commutator
generator. "In a dynamo or magneto eleo-
tric machine the combination with the field
magnet, of a core within the influence of
each pole, a. magnetic connection between
such coreB, and a bobbin upon either or
upon each of said cores", (rejected by
reason of working model not being shown)
Oct. 20,1882. Incandescing Conductors:
Forming sheets of par chraentized cellulose
made of pure cotton dissolved in sulphuric
acid, arsenic acid or chloride of zinc.
Pressing into sheets and cutting filaments
therefrom.
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74,788 Oot . 20, 1882. Lamps ; To prevent carry¬
ing of carbon to globe by covering leading-
in-wires, and the enlarged ends of carbon
with insulating material, such as Japan
varnish, collodion, etc.
76,381 Nov. S, 1682. Hnnuf a.cture of Lamps: A
method of equalizing resistance of carbon
filaments by raising the filament of high¬
er resistance to incandescence and deposit¬
ing carbon thereon.
78,772 Dec. 7, 1882. Regulator for Dynamo:
The combination with a magneto electric
machine and translating devices arranged
in multiple arc, of an exciting machine
for energizing the field of the other, and
means actuated by variations in the number
of translating devices in circuit, for
regulating the current generated by the
exciter .
Jan. 8, 1883. Generating Electricity :
Process of generating electricity by
chemically reducing an oxide of lead to
form one electrode, chemically raising
an oxide of lead to form the other elec¬
trode, and placing said electrodes in di¬
lute Sulphuric acid.
Jan. 8, 1883. Lamps : Coating filaments
with silicon to mahe them more durable
and prevent carrying.
Jan. 8, 1883. Commutator : This covers a
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S.E. 81,327
S.K. 81,853
8.K. 81,854
commutator with removable bars.
Jan. 8, 1683. Secondary Battery: Electrode
made by moulding oxide of lead in hollow
form, perforated, reduce it aid then fill
with molten lead.
Jan. 15, 1083. lamp : Simply covers en¬
larged ends of filament made in tapering
form instead of equare shoulders.
Jan. 15, 1883. Lamp : 1'his appears to be
a special attempt to tie up loose ends in
the filament situation. I think the idea
was to make legal position more secure.
G.lf. 82,241 Jan. 16, 1883. Manufacture of Conductors
for Lamps : Cover's methods and devices for
preventing the curling of filaments during
carbonization, by moulds which retain the
sheets or blanks under pressure during
carbonization, while permitting of contrac¬
tion.
S.iT. 88,357 Mar oh 16, 1883. Electric Motors; A motor
with two armatures on one shaft, oppositely
wound, so that motor can be reversed.
April 17, 1883. Manufacture of Lamps:
Method of preventing carrying by coating
the loading- in-wires and clamps with car¬
bon.
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S.K. 92,613
S.K. 91,955
.1 99,552
99,560
108,561
S.H. 106,564
S.K. 111,327
S.K. 114,284
April 17, 1883.
Making filaments of p ar chmentized material
and carbonising.
April 17, 1883. lamp a : Joining filament
by making leading-in-v/irea into split cyl¬
inders and inserting ends of filament
therein and clamping same.
June 29, 1883. Dynamo ; Mounting dynamo
upon ways, with means of moving same to
and from engine to adjust length of belt.
June 29, 1883. Fixture ; For group of
lights to arrange same radially in a horiz¬
ontal plan on top of a pole, with a closed
opaque or transldoent reflector above them.
Oct. 10, 1883. Generator ! This is a
type of Jumbo machine.
Oot. 10, 1883. Lamp: Method of attaching
filament to leading- in-wires by flattening
ends of latter and bending them into a
clamp; electro-plating ends of filament, and
placing them in clamps then slipping over
them a split-sleeve.
Nov. 9, 1883. Galvanic Battery: Negative
element of carbon surrounded by mixture of
divided carbon and peroxide of lead, en¬
closed in covering of textile fabric.
Dec. 12, 1883. Distribution System: Method
of disconnecting a generator from system
by reducing the current before cutting out.
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I (Interference with Vhoelor- decided in hie
fa.vor)
S.l!. 118,546 Jan. 24, 1884. Electrical Conductors:
Belates to insulating and protecting cov¬
erings for conductors. Eirst they are
v/ound with an insulating covering, then
with metallic foil and then with retaining
cov ering.
S.il. 118,545 Jan. 24, 1884. Dynamo : Ilethod of indi-
i eating at any time the amperes developed
by any particular generator. Consists
in an indicator pointer carried by the
pivoted yoke on which the brushes are
mounted. A scale is determined by teBt
and placed above the yoke.
S.D. 126,801 April 6, 1684. Lamp : To give filament,
a greater light-giving capacity by coating
same with substance reflective of light,
such as Silicon, Boron, Osmium or iridium.
Process by electro-vacuous deposition.
(Edison's Case 615, Serial Ho. 116,942.)
S.H. 126,804 April 5, 1884. Dynamos : For two or more
armatures in one field.
S.1T. 132,357 May 22, 1884. Pulleys : Edison and Livor.
A pulley having a sheet metal shell oast
thereon by a fusion of the surface of the
wrought metal with the oast metal.
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July 1, 1884. Electrical Conductors;
Method of insulating a conductor by cover¬
ing same with paper or textile covering,
then saturating such covering with a boiled
drying oil in a liquid or semi-liquid state,
allowing same to dry, and then applying a
braided, wound or woven exterior covering.
July 1, 1884. Dynamo Telegraphy: "The
combination with a dynamo circuit, of two
or more circuits derived therefrom contain¬
ing resistances, two or more quadruplex
lines and instruments, shunts around por¬
tions of said resistances to the quadruplex
instruments, and ground connections through
separate grounding resistances."
S.K. 136,521
July 1, 1884. Dynamo Telegraphy: Object
to produce simple and efficient arrange-
raent whereby several telegraph or other
grounded linos oan be operated from the
same dynamo circuit and can be given cur¬
rents of different tensions; and further
to also provide means for giving such line
currents of opposite polarity. A further
object is to provide means for working
the sounders from the sane dynamo circuit
and making them practically independent
of one another. (There was evidently a
hard fight in this case. A great many ac¬
tions- the final one being Aug. 21, 1894.)
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Sy'"- 157,943 Harch 6, 1885. Telephone: A division of
Edison Case Wo. 159 and known as Wo. 159D.
(This application is fi^od by Serrell)
"The combination with a telephonic trans¬
mitting instrument and its line circuit, of
a distant electro-magnet, a tension regu¬
lator acted upon "by such magnet, a local
circuit passing through the tension regu¬
lator and through the primary of an induc-
toriuin with its secondary going to the
second lino circuit, whereby the electrical
variationsproduced by the transmitter in
the first line circuit cause corresponding
electrical variations in the second line
circuit.
S.W. 165,704 Way 16, 1885. Paper : Method of making
moisture proof, insulating and dielectric
paper by impregnating thin paper with an
oxydized, boiled drying oil, such as lin¬
seed oil.
8.W. 179,867 Oct. 14, 1885. Telephone Transmitter:
Relates to extra or guard diaphragm to pre¬
vent the effect of "wind rushes". One of
the claims reads "In an electric telephone
transmitter, the combination with the main
diaphragm and current varying electrodes
affected thereby, of the extra diaphragm
supported rigidly from the case of the
instrument and situated between said main
diaphragm and the mouth piece."
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186,808 Dec. 26, 1885. Dynamo : To present spark¬
ing at commutator. Second claim reads
"In a dynamo electric machine or electro¬
dynamic motor, the combination of tv/o or
more continuous or clo.sed circuit arma¬
ture windings connected each at intervals
to commutator bars, said bars being arrang¬
ed alternately or in succession, and commu¬
tator brushes whose bearing is not sufficient
to bridge bars of the name winding.
1910. Phonograph - General (D-10-50)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
the technical and commercial development of phonographs. Among the
documents for 1910 are items pertaining to the development of diamond
reproducing points, inexpensive phonographs for foreign markets, and disc
phonographs. Also included are a general report on the American
phonograph market; a comparative report of general expenses for the
National Phonograph Co. for the period June 1 909-June 1 91 0; and letters to
Edison about the phonograph, to which he responded with marginal
comments. Some of the letters are by Frank L. Dyer, president of the
National Phonograph Co.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include routine inquiries, letters of transmittal and
acknowledgment, and items that duplicate information in selected material.
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Your favor of Loccnbor 17th v. c duly received
in roforonoo to tho ohon.p r.y o' iron you lihtr to oonpotc CQvinst
in Luropo, out tho Eurnaphono 0r.t-a.q7u0 h r. not yet cer-.o to
hond, nor Ik-vo the oheerp mnehinoo you .ref or to. In diccuc-
oIiig thio r.r. ttor rather inforo l!!y with :'r. saiocn «. dry or 00 -
°cb ho ashed no to obtain for iiin craanlec of thooo- cheap naohinoo
you rofor to, , and 1 havo therefore cabled you to-day as follor/c:
. , "Sond in- odlatoly ourrlco foroica nnchinoo. two of
0. on typo, linking Dolor/ ton dollr.ro, ditfc end oylindor, not
noro than ton naohinoo in •*
Vdion thcoo onnploo aro rooodvod I will take- up tho ■ '
mttor ismodlstoly mil boo if to cannot (jot up a lino of '•
ohrai: naohinoo particularly for our Suropora buoinocid.' I do
not coo any particular objection to our doing thio although it
v/ould not ho \7ioo for uo tt tho prooont tiro to put thooo
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Eivinp a ouerostion for a disc machino, which I think should
ho tried out. She idea is to have a rigid relation ho two on
t3l° fcedine stylUB ant1 th0 reproducing stylus and provide a
delicate adjusting device for the feeding stylus, so that
the relations between the two can he vox* accurately adjusted.
If you do not understand exactly what his sugges¬
tion is, let me know and I will explain it to you.
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I which are daily in Jeopardy, because they j
are not only unique, but a good many of i
them are irrecoverable , ‘ kEsibusx being rec- i
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are only being made jae&c by your' process' at ;i
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me where- I could get copies taken from the j;
originals & are thtty as lound A distinct, as- j’
the originals? ■ ■ ij
All my records are not loud. My only aim - ||
was to make them musically as perfect as pos¬
sible, without laying any stress on loudneBS.
. I may add, that during the 20 years I have not :
come across any musical records to match those :
I have taken.
If they can only be manifolded in your laborato
ry, would. you permit, me. to. send- them' on to j
ymu ?
[Jjfr'Zt*- 4^erv4i llCZOf JU $
34- Park .stO Gn&ewald-Berlin J Yr^y
wvue
vJLut. 9 1910
. War Mr. Edison; -"t—? J '■» ''tffo* f g jjl#
Many years have passed since *. ilwn! wr
you.& , to .my very great regret, y^ ipost^on-
derful invention, which is still going-
P%t important - part *in the
.^ always still at. its Joint
there is nobody in Eijj^pe-'nr l&l
^■manMndL
|ay
. :j
clause
^“Pe/or ^ierifcV, vpio is
willing to devote his i^e^|pnicejjt'^^i.v'e the
phonograph the finishing tn,.-mak^lt ad¬
aptable to music & certain 8<£M$cefl, where it it
is sure to once revolutionise their present
achievement's, considered today more or less
perfect. .
% object of writing you today is to ask' your
advice in, a. most important matter.
contains a good many treasures & their present
dangerous state has frequently caused me a lot of
worry.
If you can help me out of the trouble, not
oi;.ly I but the future generations will be
exceedingly grateful to you & therefore I
hope to receive a satisfactory reply to this
letter.
I sincerely hope your health continues to be
good & frequently hoped to read, that you would
some summer or other repeat your first Euro¬
pean voyage, which wou_-ld not only be a great
rest & distraction to you, but give so many
people a great pleasure on this side of the
pond.
i
Can I do this without any risk of their getting
spoilt, injured or lost? |
I have provided for a good many of them in my
will already. Some of them are destined for the j
Academy of sciences, the public library, the Imperi
ial Conservatory, in Pettrburg , & other r'ussian
scientific institutions.
To name Borne, I will mention:Recitations of
Tolstoi from his own works, the voice of the empr J
ress, recitation from Polonskis, Gaideburows &
other well know poets since dead, personally
spoken, some o.f the most celebrated actors since
deceased, a number of compositions of Arenski
personally played (also deceased)Nikita, Hofman
& other great musicians, some wonderful russian
legends sung by peasants of a tribe now dying
out & invaluable for ethnological researches &c
See . j. ’ ’•
I do not want to annoy you any longer with the list
but can only repeat, that the phonogrammothek
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T / — SATiohal nroirocnArir cqt.tpai;v
(VW — ’n'na: —
\jr^. • - Eor; lioimi of jms ^qo - igm.
Total for
month
thin year
To tal for
!9o nth
laot year
To dat
fi seal
year
e To date
last
year
OKLLIIiG & A1WIBI3TTIATITO XXP'.m?.*.
1786.68
2233.65
1398.44
188.00
350.00
60.00
676.00
156.00
632.07
196.00
378.00
1012.00
204.91
5G2C.04
4390.75
7560.96
8950.64
8.95
10136.14
146.20
34.40
8140.40
1347.35
164.11
685.75
091.50
7497-iDl
11206.8!
5901.2!
627 ,0(
2261. OC
459 .OC
2866. be
607. OC
2301. 8£
1078. OC
865. OC
5741. CE
021.CC
10958. 9<
32992. 5E
47055.11
100560.14
50.00
666. 8C
563.4?
44237.03
271.98
120.20
8510.80
6001.34
320.01
562.85
2094.94
3 745&.09
2 9987.76
2 5995.07
3 544,00
3 1089.00
) 783.00
) 3126.00
) 663.00
5 2031.13
> 833.00
) 1581.00
5 4516.00
> 955.25
1 41473.60
> 19664.77
34907.36
74425.36
2 . 50
477.34
39776,24
4703.05
180.24
7551.33
5158.86
531.09
1115.48
4390.31
Oirioialo
3alea Dept.
Accounting Dept.
Purchasing k Coat Dept.
Billing Dept.
Production Dept.
Shipping * order Dept.
Pay Ho 11 Dept.
Miscellaneous Help
Traffic Dept.
Transcribing Dept.
Adv. Salaries
Tolehpno Services
Loyal
Salesmens Onlarieo k Exp.
Catalogs Etc.
Pap ora ■. \'agazine3
Chari ty
Exhibition
Entertainment
Freight & Expre33
Foreign Shipments
Ee33engar3, Carfare Etc.
Printing >-« Stationery
Postage
Telegraph
Travel
.’i.Y.O. Paint.
Total
iv.cTOHY expei.esh
Exp or i mental
Extra Labpr
Imp. Oen'l Repair
Insurance
Power, Heat i; Light
Laborers
Maint. of Plant
" " Tools
Musical Records
Packing .< boxing
Pattorna * Drawings
Rent
Record Committee
Stock Clerk 3
Stable
V/atchmen
Taxes
Total
’JICCHLLAJiEOUS EXPEHOE
Interest & Discount
/Miscellaneous
Systematizing
Total
' fflUfR niDSE EX? Eli CD
Superintendent
Experimental
Jr eight .■« Express
; Imp. A: Gen'l Repairs
Power, Heat * Light
-Muint. pf Tool 3
Packing <i Boxing
Rent
Watchmen
Miscellaneous
Total
1848.10
8534,00
1315.00
148,00
496.00
108.00
606.00
140.00
648.67
846.50
804.00
1308.00
166.99
3007.56
4436.53
14911. 96
5483.91
50.00
91.00
67.12
6344.87
63.01
21.63
882.84
1803.95
59.63
194.99
639.50
13750.48
433.82
125.00
1409.62
1113.55
1875.59
97.44
2354.39
9304.14
53.58
738.66
314.80
63.85
1295.14
489.30
50.00
auy 3u .uy
3464.51
891.14
125.00
1464.05
1038.48
1280.37
87.96
1071.07
9065.98
60.00
IM
49.05
270.54
318.54
50.00
2u8ji.ii. iu
24621.95
7.39
2927.50
139.49
7117.80
5672.40
6410.49
836.32
6328.09
50518.11
334.52
Ems
265.80
1425.14
1530.71
50.00
275274.13
8979-i82
63.46
1878.26
130.00
5933.01
5034.04
4249.92
40.35
4561.06
42552.29
456 . 53
209.45
335.54
1584.91
50.00
151931.90
1850.19
221.16
“”'19653. UU '
5839.29
2054.04
illiyoy .ye
9776.18
1679.02
Vb3yo.ii |
1976.55
1479.84
10.28
8071.35
240.00
60.70
115.52
29.17
.67
.02
3100.00
486.78
20.20
3053*06
7943.33
11455.20'
24C .00
60.70
157.83
29.17
.67
.02
2100.00
486.78
20/20
3466)67 |
GRAIiD TOTAL
1
84955.55
62649.57 i
3095.37
107451.71
354118.00 ;
October 29th, 1910.
. „ Havo recently had an interview with Mr. wm. H.
Atkins, General Superintendent of the Edison Eleotric
Illuminating Co., of Boston, Mass., who are preparing a
portable house for advertising purposes, in which every¬
thing in the home is to be operated by electricity, and
thffnm!6? Atki2F that aa they were furnishing
the house in that way, that perhaps it might be well for
aa t° supply him with an Edison Phonograph as an added
attraction*
.. °£ o°urse they would not have anything unless
a? wae operated by eleotricity, and it may be that the
Alva Phonograph, with Cygnet Horn, would answer the pur-
£°se> °;L*t ®ay 1)0 that you would oonolude that the Bal¬
moral, with Edison Storage Battery, so as to take oare of
the variations in currents would be more suitable.
,vv?ula lika to give this your consideration,
and then advise me what you think best regarding it so
wi*k: “*■ AtklnB and find out what part¬
icular finish of wood he would like. 1
Of course the machine would be placed on con¬
signment only, and we would have to supply him with a
quantity of good records.
POiDeer.
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Mr. Dyko: ’’ 12/u/lO.
It seoins to me that there ought to he some way by which
an exchange proposition con he put into effect in Canada that
will not handicap us in the way of Customs Duties. At tho
present time rooords going into Canada pay a duty , and if those
records aro returned to us on an oxohange schorae tho duty is not
refunded. This makes the exchange proposition very exponsive.
I oannot sec why, if goods are returned unsold, tho duty should
not ho refunded, particularly Binco under any exchange idea the
doaler or jobber roturning the rocords must agree to purchase
a larger amount of now rooords. In other words, an oxchange
fg )
vroposition stimulates trade in Canada and increases customs re-
coipts. I should think that the phonograph proposition might ho
rogardod hy tho Canadian authorities as a special business that
has to he handled in a difforont way from most other linos. If
you can got in touch with the right kind of people in Canada
perhaps you can do something with this matter. There may he
special firms in Canada, like our customs brokers here, or there
may ho Bpocial firms of lawyers who make a specialty of customs
practioe. Perhaps hy writing to tho oustoms people in Ottawa,
or in some other way, you may get in touch with a firm who can
attend to this on a roasonahlo basis.
]?ED/IV",Y
Ii\ 1. D.
(D]x'3«sKiwic xrf 3i^tSitrtn;I Prsmrlj
JHjtsIftnijtiin, P-C
Temporary Office : 604 Ttibbs Building,
a-u \$CcL
Mi*. Thomas A. Edison,
0 range, M. J
liy dear Mr. Edison:- ^
iov.Mfhc
_ ___ .
aon’ u,
I do not knovr
but I have been for many ‘yo'ars^cS
srtu^^:t
tdient of /
havo on one or two occasions cory^sa^dsd wit^y^j.
regard to scientific and tocluvical matters* In additj*
_ _ Y you when the
ourlaboratories severa
of Public Tioads of the Depta
to this, I once had the pleas®
Electrochemical Society visited you?
years ago. I wish to call to your attention the est,
lishment in Washington of The Institute of Industria,
search, the scope and purposes of which
length in the enclosed announcement circular which I
trust you will have the patience to read.
When I was in your laboratories I was very much
interested in the method you use for gold-molding your
phonograph records. I havo no idea whether this method
of yours has been published and patented or whether it
is merely a secret process of your own. I am not inter¬
ested in it with reference to performing the sort of work
that you do ’With it, but merely with reference to an en¬
tirely different problem. I am not asking you to give
(3)
i::o the information if it is not consistent with your policy,
but if there is anything that cun be told about it, X should
vory much appreciate any information. I would particularly
like to know the pressure of the atir.osphero maintained under
the bell glass and the potential at which the current used
is. I presume, of course, the current ie a direct one at
very high potential. If you are too much occupied to reply
to this letter personally, I should nevertheless appreciate
it if you would refer it to the member of your staff who
could tell me anything that it is possible for you to give
out. Tf there is any way at any time that this Institute
can serve you or your various companies, we would be only
too glad to correspond.
With the highest respect, I remain, Sir,
Very truly yours,
Director .
ASC-P
DEC 27 i9 1 0
December 25rd, 1910.
Mr.
During my recent visit to eleven Jobbing cities, in
which I discussed business conditions generally with twenty-two
jobbers, would state .that in but very few instances were the trade
entirely satisfied with the amount of business they were obtaining
from Edison goods - the exceptions being i, H. Luoker, Minneapolis :
Harger & Blish, Des Moines; Sohmelsbr Arms Co., Kansas City, who
all stated their business in our line was excellent, and that they
were entirely satisfied with the results they were obtaining.
It would appear that the general merchandise lineB
were not up to other years, the piano people particularly complain¬
ing at lessened sales and the very slow collections.
It would seem that our line was probably in worse
condition' than at any time in the past three years, when taking
into consideration the period* of the year.
Shis is in a great measure due to the fact that the
trade are wondering what we are going to put out next, and have
been buying only what appeared to be absolutely necessary to keep
their stocks in fair condition.
She demand for Victor goods haB very materially in¬
creased, and in the jobbing cities which I visited all those who
were handling the Victor line were complaining about not being able
to^ obtain a sufficient supply from the factory, particularly viot-
rolaa of all three types* Ehis does not appear to be the case,
however, with the cheaper priced disc machines. it looks to
me as though the cities were "Viotrola, crazy" and our Amberola
which was intended to take care of some of this demand has failed,
owing to the machine itself not proving entirely satisfactory no the
jobbers, dealers and the general public, as a great deal of trouble
has been experienced with the reproducer ms* whioh still cuts the
reoords, and the fact that the machine ini a great many oases is
trade has been unable to overcome this e dif¬
ficulties in the machine. in its present form it does not seem
to compare favorably with the Viotrola, nor would it seem possible
to ever make it soil to a similar extent unless we can provide Grand
Opera reoords of a similar oharaoter to that supplied by- the com¬
peting Company. • * • *
Mr. 3?. I. Byer.
Page Ho. 2.
This appears to he praotioally impossible with our present line,
and the necessity for haste in produoing the disc machine and
record is more apparent than ever.
The trade as a whole are apparently making very
little lt'Wa effort to obtain Edison business in the larger oities,
taking only that which comas to them, and we have only a few job¬
bers that X visited that are making an earnest effort to travel the
territory and secure the dealers business.
The jobber and dealer alike are dissatisfied, owing
to the fact that they are compelled to carry the two minute record
which is not selling and is increasing their difficulties each
month by trying to find a place to stock them.
It would also appear true that our machines being
more complicated, that it is more difficult for the average
dealer to, handle and keep in proper condition, and he is evidently
working .along the lines of the least resistance by handling the
disc goodB, which do not appear to be giving him any serious amount
of trouble meohanically.
, It will be necessary for us to seriously consider
withdrawing certain types of cur maohlneB which are equipped with
the strai^t horn, as, the Cygnet horn has the call, and the with¬
drawal of the straight horn types would be an advantage to the en¬
tire trade, as they would have to carry a less number of types in
order to show the full line.
We have also to reckon with the entire two minute
list which is now lying dertoant, and we should discontinue listing
ten selections eaoh month and should; not make over five at the
most, and even then this will be too many in a very short time.
The sooner we faoe the situation and entirely withdraw the two min¬
ute list, the better will be our result s with the entire trade,
as they are disgruntled and dissatisfied.
We should also very shortly consider the advisability
of making only four minute type machines, thereby obviating to a
great extent the possibility of the machines not working satisfact¬
orily in the handB of the; inexperienced oonsumer, to say nothing
of the ignorant dealer. who; is trying to- show. them.
My attention has been called to the faot that this
would knook out our recording feature, which is one of the talking
points, but which is being very little, UBed, so far as I can deter¬
mine.
■Hr. F. 1. Dyer. Page Ho. 3.
The model "0" reproducer aha. the Triumph machine in
its present form is giving the greatest satisfaction, and is one
of the host things we have done in a long while, very materially
increasing the demand for that type maohine. Have received num¬
erous suggestion that we plan to get out as an extra only, the
model ”0" reproducer with the neoessary arms for the Home and
Standard types, avoiding equipping the machines with them as Bent
out from the factory, and permitting the trade to sell the repro¬
ducer as an extra only.
I heard very little about the Idelia, and while it
ought to he a very satisfactory machine, it does not appear to he
selling in any quantity, and there is a demand for a cheaper con¬
cealed horn maohine than the Amberola, hut if it cannot be made
more satisfactorily than that type, it ought not to he made at all.
The trade is very anxiously awaiting some official
announcement relative to the new disc goods, and if we oan produce
something which oartHfemonst rated as better than that now manufact¬
ured by our competitors , I feel no hesitancy in saying we oan dis¬
pose of all the factory oan make, at least for a period of time.
Should the Victor Company demand that their distrib¬
utors refrain from handling any other disc line as called for in
their distributors contracts, it does not appear we will have any
difficulty in obtaining proper jobbing representation in Detroit,
Toledo, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Eaul, either Omaha
or Lincoln, Des Heines', St. Louis, Indianapolis, Peoria - Kansas
City being on the doubtful list, as the J. W. Jenkins* 3ons Milsie
Co. in that City show a deoided preference for the other line,, and
we will have to "show" the Sohmelzer Arms Co. some xamcfcig excellent
reason for discontinuing the Victor line. The last mentioned Com¬
pany have recently opened a branch in Oklahoma City, taking over
the Edison stock formerly in the hands of Smith's Phonograph co.,
and are also Victor distributors, so that these remarks apply to
that City also.
The national Phonograph Co. and its Officials are
held in high esteem by the trade, but the confidence in our goods
and our policies have been Bomewhat shaken by the conditions sur¬
rounding our several exchanges, and the goods themselves are not
selling any too readily, but I &m convinced that the line oan be
restored to the place it held if the product oan be brought to a
state nearer perfection.
The present cylinder record muBt be very materially
strengthened, as the question of breakage is a very important one,
and if the oause of numerour complaints between the jobber and dealer
Mr. p. I. Dyer. Page Do. 4.
and ia creating dissatisfaction.
Reports from our traveling salesmen during our
reoent meeting in Chicago very clearly indicates that the U. S,
Phonograph line with its indestructible record and new type cylinder
machines is cutting very little figure in the trade, hut there is
a very decided rumor that when we announce otir disc, that there is
a possibility of the Victor Company talcing over the other oylinder
line, and if that is true, it would look as though we would have
a very lively fight on our hands.
It is absolutely certain that the jobbers who are
now handling both lines cannot mat successfully from a financial
point of view travel their territories as they are now doing with
the Victor line alone, as the larger percentage of their salesmens
business is with the Edison goods, and this no doubt will be a
considerable factor in the jobbers deciding as to their future polioy
regarding our line,
Mr. George Ornstine of the Victor co,, has been en¬
deavoring to line up some of the jobbers and find out where they
stood regarding the Victor goods when our new disc was offered to
them, and he recently tried to induce Mr. Luoker, of Minneapolis ,
to throw out Edison goods - Mr. luefeer telling him to "go to the
Devil," Healso wanted Mr, luoker to establish an exclusive
retail store for Victor goods in St. Paul, where Hr. hacker's
brother is now operating, and handling both lines, but selling more
Edison goods than he is Victor. There is a peculiar condition
existing in Minneapolis and St. Paul, as in the Minneapolis store
of Pucker their retail is about 80$ Victor and 80$ Edison,, while
in their store in St. Paul on the Saturday proceeding my arrival
there were eleven outfits sold, all being EdiBon machines - not
one being a Victor.
luck er has made the positive statement to me that he will stay
with the Rational Phonograph Company, and 1 personally have pract¬
ical ly promised him to permit him to distribute our goodB from the
Twin Cities should it come to a show-down and w. J. Dyer & Bro. deo-
ide$ to continue the Viotor line and discontinue outb.
Koehler & Hinriohs in St. Paul are nearly ready to sell their Edison
stock and have made some half hearted attempts, and when I saw them
a few days ago and endeavored to obtain further information from
them they stated they were not trying to sell out at thiB time, but
that they would keep me posted relative to this particular matter.
What I wanted to do was to. have Luoker purchase their Edison stock
and become a jobber in St. Paul, so:. we might be provided for in
the event of future moveB, and I think possibly this may be brought
about at some time in the future. '
Mr. F. I. Dyer.
Page Do. 5.
It appears that the Viator Company have recently
estahlishad the Metropolitan MubIo Co., Minneapolis, Minn.,
which is a branoh of W. 3. Dyer & Bro,, as a distributor on a basis
of a #1600. order, granting them the maximum discounts. This is
denied by Mr. George Maira of the Dyer Co.,, but Mr. luoker assures
me he received, a letter from Mr* George Ornstlne that the Metro*-
politan Musio Co. were enjoying the extreme discounts on Victor goods.
I will like nothing better than to have samples of
the new disc furnished me at as early a date as possible, feeling
confident that when these samples are shown, and our policy regard¬
ing the goods is amounoed, I will have no difficulty in lining up
excellent jobbing representation in most every large City in the
country, particularly if we osn promise some protection as to ter-
4x ritory. There is oertainly a demand for something new in
the Edison line, and the earlier we oan plaoe it on the market the
better it will be for us.
In oonolusion I want to say that my observation
leads meto believe that the two minute record is doomed, as the
attachments are selling in great numbers, and when onoe placed upon
our maohlnes the consumer rarely buys a two minute reoord, and I
want to impress it upon you that the sooner we take a rational view
of this two minute situation, the better we will be off.
F. K. Dolbeer.
Mr. S. A. Edison; Mr. C. H. Wilson; Mr. Wm. pelzers Mr. B.C. MoChes-
ney; Mr. P. Weber; Mr. E. J. Berggren and Mr. W. Stevens.
1910. Phonograph - Edison Business Phonograph
Company (D-10-51)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
Edison Business Phonograph Co. Included are items pertaining to general
expenses, sales, company directors, advertising, and other promotional
concerns.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of correspondence regarding claims
against the John S. Davis Co. for unpaid bills.
1102
MEMORANDUM
A
Hr. Durand.: 4/29/10.
Ur. Edison has sent me a memorandum to tho of foot that
To wishes to talk ovor with U3 the possibility of putting- out three
types of Business machines at different prices, and I wish you
would hoar this in mind and go up with mo to seo him.- at tho first
possible opportunity. /
h-d/iyay E. l. d. ■ / ,
— ^TlX_S^tL_J3USJC_tTIILSS _ 3^0 ^O.GR AEIT _ ^CLO^TP AtiiL
_ mBBALMEBHfflLBBEQBai _ .
FOR QUARTERS ENDING MAY 31st. 1909 - 1910.
Officials 35.00 10.00
Sales 2259.00 2569.00
Accounting Dept. 269.16 234.00
Billing Dept. -96.00 182.00
Transcribing Dept.
Advertising
Salesmen's Salaries & Expenses
Entertainment
Exhibition
Freight & Express
Interest & Discount
Miscellaneous
Messengers, Carfare Etc.
Packing & Boxing
Printing & Stationery-
postage
Rent
Trave ;
Telephone
Telegraph
Mechanic's Repairs
Rebilled Account
Legal
Insurance
Experimental
357.00
3372.42 2586.82
3624.31 3470.01
16.20 100.54
4.00 210.00
1370.31 2079.80
474.99 841.71
35.19 21.03
.60 4.50
764.57 1190.71
658.98 660.06
1195.82 1010.62
51.00 51.00
187.15 19.89
22.46 33.32
43.12 113.17
44.14 2.10
1.56
95.00 53.45
5.00 2.81
_ 832.62
TOTAL
14625.98
16636.16
MEMORANDUM
Replying to your memorandum of the 14th inst.
since I think the eame name plates should he applied to
all types of husinesB phonographs we will let the matter
rest as it is. If a new name plate haB to he designed
later on there may he other patents to he added, hut I
do not think, we should include special patents 'that apply
only to spring motor machines*
lid)/ ARK.
F. L. Dyer.
'J lie corporation above named, organized and registered under the Laws of the Stale of New Jersey, docs hereby
make tile following report in compliance with the provisions of an act of the Legislature of New Jersey, entitled “An
Act Concerning Corporations (Revision of i8<j6) T^ulHie various ac^rtngjidatory thereof and supyliy
FIRST — Thp-rjamc of the corporation is. t
. .'7m?. O
is the agent upon whom process may he served.
THIRD — The character of the business is*&<££<S i-
FOURTH — The amount of the authorized capital stock is . 3, Q .o. p. .y” . The amount actually
issued and outstanding is §jS.O. £?.<?. ,iP .
FIFTH— The names and addresses 6f all the Directors and Officers, and the term when the office of each
expires, are as follows:
• _ _ ^ _
President,
Vice-President,
ad-yire-Riv
Treasurer,
T
Sccrctary, .
SIXTH — The next annual meeting of the stockholders f<
. . rt
SEVENTH— The name of the corporation has been at all limtfs'clisplaycd at the entrance of its registered office
in this State, and the corporation has kept at its registered office in this Slate a transfer-book, in which the
tiansfers of stock are made, and a stock-hook, containing the names and addresses of the stockholders and the number
of shares held by them respectively, openat all times to the examination ofthc stockholders as required by law.
• • . . A. D. igi (3
of Directors is appointed to he held o
WITNESS our hands the . . dajrq
THE MERCANTILE AGENCY.
R. G. Dun & Co.
' air
i nc vj r ;■ v. : rooi ';.
_ ■louOirr.r/r. Co .
• "r',; • ,'c' • *lfc " 3u.»ei-y "o . , ar«i ivouic ajipreciate It wry greatly i
ccuir. .Ir:.!?;. tine statements of t:wse tv.T; companies Tor u;;,
Shame ins You, e remain
Yours; very truly
K.G.Bun Mo.
-v-
Kess. R. G. Bun & Co., - '
Newark, N. J.
Attention. of Hr. S. E. Hills
Bear Sir : •
The following is report on Edison Business Phonograph Co., as
of February 20th, 1910, as requested by you in your letter of August
6th.
1,466.94 Cash
59,090.67 -At eta. Receivable
626.53 Inventory
868.92 Machinery & Tools
450.00- Stock in other Companies
Accounts Payable
Due Affiliated Companies
Surplus Assets over
. Liabilities
2,196.82
51,257.79
9,848.45
$63,303.06.
$63,303.06
Trusting thi3 is satisfactory, we remain,
Yours very truly,
EDISON. BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH CO.
Treasurer
. EDISON BUSINESS PHDNDEHAPH ED.
ORANGE, N. J.
Manufacturing” Appliances for the
EDISON EDMMEHDIAL SYSTEM
September 19, 1910.
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No .^26.
TRADE INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH DEALERS
Correspondence concerning this bulletin chould mention its number and be
addressed to Edison Business Phbno. Co., Advertising Dept., Orange, N. J.
Attached is a sample cofiy of a little envelope enclosure which
we have printed to Bhow the saving in tho cost of electrical current With
the Edison Business Phonograph Using the Universal Motor.
The question frequently arisen as to whether the Edison machine
'consumes more or' less Current than the one manufactured by our competitors.
•This slip settles the argument without question. Can you use a small quantity!
Ife think so, and will be glad to mail you a few if you agree.
We are not suggesting- that this form be used for general distri¬
bution purposes but only in tho "haoking up” of the Edison argument for economy.
EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH CO.
EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH CO.
TRADE INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS MONOGRAPH DEALERS
Correspondence concerning this bulletin should mention its
number and ha addressed to the Edison Business Phonograph Co.,
Advertising Department, Orange , N . J .
It is the present oustom of many of our Dealers to use
regular letter heads in placing orders on us for merchandise,
printed matter etc. Quite frequently necessary information
regarding routing, date of shipment, etc. is omitted. Often
an order appears in the body of a. letter which, because it
contains matters for the attention of several individuals, must
be passed through a half dozen departments in our office.
This lack of complete information, and the necessity of
passing a letter through several hands before it reaches our
Order Department, combine to increase the possibility of errors
and to cause delays in the filling of orders, i
To correct this condition we enlist the co-operation of
our Dealers in the use of a new duplicate order book vjhich we
have prepared and which we stand ready to furnish Dealers
upon request.
Kindly let us know if we may send you one or two of the
books. Specify Form #647 when ordering.
EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH CO.
X
Mjr dear Mr. Edison:-
,1 enclose a page from the Pacific Printer.
X thought the paragraph marked at the hot-
tom might interest you as it talks about your machine. This
letter which the Pacific Printer carries was published in seven
thousand country newspapers in the United States — they used
it of course because of the recommendation of their kind of
advertising. I think you will be interested to know that your
business phonograph works perfectly on the train. When I
first got your phonograph your manager told me he did not
think it was possible to use it on the train -- the vibration
would prevent its use. But X tried the experiment and found
that by taking an ordinary pillow which the train porter supp¬
lies and putting it under the machine I could get a perfect
record. In this way, going to and from Chicago two or three
times a month, instead of losing my time on the train, I have
my best hours of business. Naturally I am indebted to you, and
I want you to see ,that as publicly as I can , I recognize the
indebtedness.
I hope that you are well, and that the
collection of cells called Thomas A. Edison, will come pretty
close to immortality anyhow — even if you are right about
their ultimate dispersal, in which I don't in the least agree
with you.
Thomas A. Edison,
West Orange,
Yours very sincerely
Esq. ,
N.J-.
Dictated but not read.
[ENCLOSURE]
%
130
The 'Vi zlue of the Country dZewsjzajser as an
Advertising JVledium
By Arthur Brisbane
A. BRISBANE
nication from you. I make it a rule to attend to my cor¬
respondence promptly.
At present I write— dictating to the Edison Business
Phonograph— on the 20th Century on my way from Chi¬
cago to New York. I always speak extemporaneously,
and I have no notes or reports of the address in Omaha in
that tlie metropolitan newspapers should do wlut they can
to advocate the use by advertisers of the local newspapers
throughout the country.
1 o begin with, the local newspapers in proportion to
their circulation are in my opinion INFINITELY THE
MOST VALUABLE ADVERTISING MEDIUMS
[ENCLOSURE]
- .7 V
THE PACIFIC PRINTER - - 131
^opdu.a°tionV™ te1 TV*"*' t0 rCaCh the l0CaI
dated has no country newspapers, but only metropolitan So^s ™“&£?Sse ' tIIe' ^HTEVERySf"^'
EXPRESS COMPANIES MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE
FOR I’HE MANUFACTURER t n n it a r- it -nr,.-
jjir&a >-> xr* s^’sassas^^rasaras
rxia. cr k„ .
e— the Examiner, earns FIVE DOLLARS EV
ACQUAINTANCE, and attaches to the printed state- ample— the Examiner iann'nVF
men and advertisements of the country newspaper, far YEAR FOR EVERY COPY OF THE paper en,Rn
greater importance than the dweller in the big city at- This ncwsniner can I, 1 11 ^ I AI ER SOLD.
' ’ s to the statement of the advertisements in the big adver Jew EL " “m0Unt °f bl;cau.se
As one friend talking to another about certain kinds of Th’eM IMMfTm^PIMY5' W .,A?D SHPPLY
big metropolitan newspaper, which is really a stranger, an circuit lo„ the clm^ Innnm i, l"° ‘b?u,!!and
sr- “ "■ - ,"i“ “* vaRars
“«• «-• ««, - mnm, m, i. 5 r~r,?rIs? Ssssts .?"» ?,»?
part that the country newspaper, or the small newspaper PARCELS POST* In the lonrr r.m i* i JV^ r . ^
ssaar ■“ - - - - "■ w «
scattered in every corner of the country. It is very im- for five i nut s l Mho J, who ' talk t0 b,.m
portant that a reasonable income, generous recognition by the count™ Td' ,i,„ ‘ a ““''spaper in
«E £B» sSSP"**53^’™® “ “f •SpSift,, ssi I J.„., „J
sriLrttystr^ 5SSr r^r
spirit and integrity, to make by hard work in a year of in- the iioint n ,.,v , 1. 1 hlS l".8?011 advlcc from
telligent journalism, a quarter as much as can be made by dee f o n the nob t of ’ ! Tl.- “ 'S still.belt,!r ad'
any rascal willing to sell himself to a corporation. It is a would b"a verv°ad dw indeed fir fcm“'\ U
great harm to the country that the ambitious newspaper were not scaled In S f?r U is. coumry ,f tbere
man should be moving always toward the hi,, pin™ in Cattcrcd »> every little hamlet a conscientious,
order to make a decent living/ Every town where there is to wntch/nd nrr mIi wl. !ng for ridiculousIy small pay
a Congressman NEEDS A GOOD EDITOR Every ‘ “nd Protect the interests of the neighborhood,
city where a judge sits, and looks at the corporation with to use It h /loo T °f th‘S y°U llkc> if you carc
one eye, and the little people with the other eye— AND A couldn’t sum fv BrnVm'Ik 'n UC ’ y°U a?kcd/or and 1
VERY DIFFERENT EYE FOR EACH— needs an i Tt' But I make this reservation, if you use
honest editor, WITH BOTH EYES ON THE JUDGE, ui/nuotations " ^ "’USt ' 1 do,,,t like cbopped
It would be a very good thing indeed for this country 1 ” Vours sincerely,
manent fortune, permanent hidepradmicel'inaddition tea I ’. S. It may interest you tt^know that whaTlTave
editors, the owners of the ^byTWS
hurZ'r mvn!'CUNTIL TO ™ UN i’^D X ^ "’ishCS *h“ 1 ba™ "p“d
CEU POSTBSYSTEM.IjL INTR0DUCE THE PAR- TOP? advertipng/'T STilm he des’e°rm/cS
As matters stand now, hundreds of men who would be viewed, is against his own fi na ncto /hi terests Ult’ narr°'?!y
CHICAGO “TRIBUNE” REPORTED SOLD
Eastern newspaper circles have been astir over rumoi
■“nine the future of the Chicago Tribune, regarding
re Jias been much speculation during f— ■
LOS ANGELES
II E. Rhoads, general manager of the Los Angeles Record
there has been much spe'cuTation^laVing'dVe ‘laTt'Tw weeks' ids' home ''ll Vf‘ *,° A".ders°"’
date tal! J0to?fVSd;r “ PJT ?f SrOUVd '»■ him there Tr d' e'esmbiisirnS o°f a JhS-
aaSSSSfilHKfSS?/
srdSSSSs2«aS®e
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
O/o Mr. Harry Millor,
laboratory .
Dear Sir:
Replying to your attached inquiry,
1 wish to state that the Dictagraph is nothing
more than an inter-communicating Telephone with a
loud speaking attachment .
There is no economy in the proposition.
The customer has to pay for the interior wiring, as
naturally the Telephone Company will not allow them to
attach their wires.
The only convenience lies in the
speaker at his desk being able to instantly connect
with any other desk which has a Dictagraph and by
means of the loud speaking telephone, say what he Hob
to by making connections on his desk.
I do not thiniThas any value as far os
a aompetittsm-'for the Busines's Bhonograph, and the
connection of tho Sterling Debenture Corporation selling
stock for this concern is enough to condemn it with any¬
one who knows anything about such propositions.
Yours very truly,
H.O.D./MH
1910. Phonograph - Edison Phonograph Works
(D-10-52)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
business of the Edison Phonograph Works. Among the items for 1910 are
letters to and from Frank L. Dyer, general manager of the Edison Phonograph
Works, regarding complaints against purchasing agent H. T. Leeming. Also
included are shop orders and comparative reports of earnings and expenses
for 1909 and 1910.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include shipping receipts, letters of transmittal and
acknowledgment, and documents that duplicate information in selected
material.
Smkx Jan. 10, 1910.
Messrs. Waterman, T.ung, Oall, Prod ’fay, Munson, Jamison, Braughting
department, Rodfeopri, Zaromba, and looming:
Please not* that winding orank-handlo #1653 will bo udoptad 01
tha following winding cranks an noon an tho stock of//2853 1b exhausted.
Also not a that Pin #2143 will bo uoad on thlo now crank:
Piresida Phonograph,
Standard *
Homo *
Triumph ■
Business Shaving Machine,
Idolla Phonograph,
Universal Shaving Maohlno,
P. K. Pilm Be winder, Model B,
P. K. Underwriters’ Modal B,
10" Rool Kangor, P. TT. Undarwrltaro' and Improvod Exhibition.
P. K. Improved Exhibition,
12" Reel Ranger, P. K. Underwriters and Improved Exhibition.
Universal P. K. ’ ■
Tho adaption of the foregoing will make the following
handles and crank-handlo-plns obnoloto:
Handles
17007, 17,266, 18,067, 12,053, 10,114, 2,053, 2,144. 16.063. 9.250.
N 18,800; ......
Plnn
17,278, ia,06TF7T7,bM, 17,267, 16,064, 1652, 9257, 18,809.
P. TSBSR.' •
CJw/jTB \
A wonvmH*^^i^”LiH"'ec wimurHOTicEAm TO oooosuusow mtmaiprorMHYAHOAKC coumcmr ukhsimis. a caocm, and omen causes on
t Wi ls © M Lumber & Box Go.
MANUFACTURERS OF
)X 5K00KS. CRATING. CLOTH BOARDS & BRICK PALLETS.
LUMBER AT WHOLESALE
\xV'y^WHITE PINE"YELL0WPINE"HEML0CK- #
Tonawanda, ST. Y. Jan. , 10th. , 1910.
Mr. Thoa. A. Edison,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir,-
We are handing you herewith enclosed
have to-day written to your General Manager, Mr. Frank" L.
will explain itself, ufo***'
Very reepectfli^D [Lq,
[ENCLOSURE]
/ QUOTATIONS HADE SUBJECT TO CHANCE WITHOUT NOTICE AND TO GOODS UNSOLD UPON RECEIPT OF REPLY AND ARE CONTINGENT UPON STRIKES. A CC! DENTS. AND OTHER CAUSES OR
WilsoN Lumber & Box Go.
MANUFACTURERS OF
BOX SHOOKS. CRATING. CLOTH BOARDS & BRICK PALLETS. , -
LUMBER AT WHOLESALE \t\'\
WHITE PINE- YELLOW PI N E - H EM LOCK . P*
Tonawanda, n. Y.. Jan. , 10 th, , 1910 .
Hr. Frank L. Dyer, General Mgr, ,
Edison Phonograph Works,
Dear Sir,0
Orange, N. J,
We feel quite dieoapointed and chagrined beoauae of the
treatment accorded us by your Purohaeing Agent, Hr. Learning and your
Box Factory man, Hr. Lozier, and, thinking you would possibly be in¬
terested in the matter, we have deoided to write you a history of
the tranaotion. Viz;
On the eleventh of December 1909 the writer oalled at your
office at Orange, N.J. and in the absence of Hr. Learning, was reoeived
by Mr. Cheshire, Mr. Learning's aost. Mr. Cheshire advised the
writer you were in the market for -about seventy-five (75) oars of
4/4 White Pine Box Lumber to be shipped you as you might require it
within the next twelve months. He then took the writer, together
with Mr. Lozier out on your Lumber yard to show me the quality of
the lumber you require with the information that you had been buy¬
ing from A. Weston & Son of our City. Mr. Lozier was very loud and
bitter in his denunciation and complaints of the grade and widths
of Lumber received from A. Weston & Son saying that the grade was
not what you bought or contracted to bo furnished you. That the
stock was very rotten and very narrow, running heavy to 4" widths
and that easily 3Q$ of it had to be thrown out on account of waste
in the' Box Factory.
[ENCLOSURE]
GUARANTEE THE COS
ilsqn Lumber & Box Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
BOX SHOOKS. CRATING, CLOTH BOARDS & BRICK PALLETS.
LUMBER AT WHOLESALE
WHITE PINE- YELLOW PI N E - H EM LOCK.
nr. P.1,. D.# 2.
Having got a line on your requirement, the writer submitted
a prloe of $ 21.7 B por U Ft, on seventy-five care of this 4/4 Box
Lumber D.3. S. and delivered on care your station, Orange,N. J.and at
the suggestion of Ur, Cheshire took your order for a sample oar to be
submitted. This was afterwards confirmed by your formal order # 4260
The car was perpared and forwarded to you in Erie oar # 104609 on
Deoember 18th., 1909.
On Deo. ,31st. Ur. Lemming wrote us as follows;
"Replying to your favor of the 24th. inot. relative to
the car of lumber shipped to us on the 18th. inst. ,we are pleased
to advise that this lumber has come to hand and our Purchasing Agt.
Hr. Lemming ,who will be in Tonawanda on Tuesday Jan. 4th. , will oall
on you in reference to same, »
On the morning of Jan. 4th. Mr. Leming, Mr. Lozier, and
Mr. Rouse, Eastern representative of A. Weston & Son, arrived in
Buffalo and registered at the Iriquoy Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y. Mr. Leming
however, did not call on us during that day. During the evening of
Jan. 4th. the writer went to Buffalo, called at the Iriquoy,and had
an audience with Mr, Leming. He advised us that he had boon so
busy with matters in Buffalo that he had not been able to go to
Tonawanda dhat day. ( we know,howevor, that Mr. Leming had been at
the office of A. Weston & Son, at Tonawanda, a greater part of that day)
[ENCLOSURE]
Wilson Lumber & Box Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
BOX SHOOKS. CRATING, CLOTH BOARDS & BRICK PALLETS.
LUMBER AT WHOLESALE
WHITE PINE- YELLOW PI N E - H EM LOCK.
Mr. F..L.D.# 3.
Ho atated,hcw ever, that he would, oall on uo in Tonawanda the next day
and go over the natter with uo and look over the Lurcher we had offer¬
ed you. During the oonveroation that evening the again stated that
A. WeBton & Sona were aelling you your lumber but that the lumber
was- not satisfactory, there being too much narrow stock and the grade
being so poor that fully 30# had to be consigned to the scrap pile
or wood pile op aooount of the poor grade and that ho thought it
would be neoeseary to make a change, and that he would surely be at
our office by ton thirty o'clock Wednesday A.M.
Mr. Leralng, however, did not call on uo on Wednesday, nor
did we hear anuthing further from him eo that about seven o' dock
Wednesday evening the writer called up the Iriquoy Hotel and asked
to talk with Mr, Leralng. After some delay Mr. Dozier oarae to the
•phone and stated that Mr. Leraing had been oalled by wire to New York
early Wednesday P.M. and so for that reason was not able to come down
to Tonawanda to see us. Mr. Lozier stated that he intended remaining
in Buffalo until Thursday morning and then leave for Orange.
The writer then asked him it the car load of lumber we
shipped you was satisfactory and Mr. Lozier replied with a string of
oaths that our car was rotten that you oould-not use it; that it was
made up largely of Hemlock and Cypress; contained only 16# of White
Pine, we advised Mr. Lozier that he hadaevidontly got our oar oon-
fused with a oar from some other party as we had neither Hemlook or
[ENCLOSURE]
. . . AIL PRICES ABE BASED OH . . . .
GUARANTEE THE COST OF GOODS AT YOUR PLACE, BUT ARE IN NO WA\
WilsoM Lumber & Box Go.
MANUFACTURERS OF
BOX SHOOKS. CRATING, CLOTH BOARDS & BRICK PALLETS.
LUMBER AT WHOLESALE
WHITE PINE-YELLOW PINE- HEMLOCK.
dypresson our yard so that It would ho absolutely impossible to have
any of these woods inoludsd in our shipment. Hr. Loaier,however, in¬
sisted that he was sure and gave uo the oar number in which our
lumber was shipped. We were then satisfied Hr. Lozier was misrep¬
resenting the lumber we had shipped. We then asked him if the oar
we shipped contained any shorts. After a moments hositation,he re¬
plied that he was not sure as he had only seen a little of tho oar
unloaded before leaving for Buffalo. We then asked him, that being
the case, how did he know that our ahipraont contained byt 15$ of
White Fine, Ho replied that he had had a telegram from the works
since coming to Buffalo giving him this advioe.
We then asked Hr. Lozier if it would be possible to see
him before he loft for Orange and he Baid,no.as he was going to take
the early morning train for Orange. So we rang off.
Since we. knew that Hr.- Lozier was misrepresenting our
lumber, it ocoured to us that possibly he was not tolling the truth
as to Mr. Learning's whereabouts so the -writer called again, to the
Iroquoy over the Phone,got the clerk at the desk and asked if Mr.
Learning was there. He replied "yes". We told him that Mr. Lozier
had advised us that Mr. Leeraing had paid his bill and left for
New York in the early after-noon. The olerk stated that this was
not oorreot as Mr. Leeraing was at that time in his room along with
Mr. Lozier. The writer then. took the train, went to Buf f alo, oalled
Ur. F.L.D.# 4.
[ENCLOSURE]
All QUOTATIONS MADE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE AND TO GOODS UNSOLD UPONRECETPT OFHEPLY AND ARE CONTINGENT UPON STRIKES. ACCIDENTS. AND OWEN CAUSES OH
OEIATS BEYOND OUN CONTROL. ALL PRICES AHE BASED ON MINIMUM CARLOADS OE 30000 POUNDS. IN MARINO DELIVERED PRICES WE SIMPLY
GUARANTEE THE COST OF GOODS AT TOUR PLACE, BUTANE IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR SATE DELIVERY.
Wilson Lumber & Box Co.
. MANUFACTURERS OF
BOX SHOOKS. CRATING, CLOTH BOARDS & BRICK PALLETS.
LUMBER AT WHOLESALE
WHITE PINE- YELLOW PINE- HEMLOCK.
at the Iroqpoy, and learned that Mr, Learning, Iir. Lozier and Mr, House
had paid tjfeir bill and left the Hotel at about eight o'clock that,
Wedna ada^, night ; all of which looked very strange and mysterious to
us ae fa had/riever bofor^ In all our business experience encountered
/ h i
anything lust like it. j j
y^How we are well /aware that you, through your purchasing Agt.
are at ./iiberty to buy wh/re you please and pay any price you may see
fit /o pay. That we have absolutely nothing to do with. Neither do
we/objeot seriously to your Mr. Lozier lieing to us about Mr. Looming
whereabouts but we do, however, ob j ect very strongly to having your Mr.
Lozier misrepresent and lie to us about the lumber we had shipped you
as a sample. Wo take a great deal of care with our shipments and
pride in making our shipments fully as good as our representation.
We positively know that the lumber we Shipped you did not contain.;
either Hemlock or Cypress. Also that the grade was very muoh better
than the lumber shown the writer on your yard at the time of making
personal visit there. If this oar of lumber is still on your yard
it will show for itself. If it has been used, or if you can not be
oertaln as to whic$ lot it 1b, we would be glad to submit to you one
five,or ten oaro,same grade, at the prioe offered which we know will
oonvinoe you beyond a shadow of doubt as being strictly up to grade
Mr. P.L.D.# 5.
[ENCLOSURE]
Wilson Lumber & Box Go.
MANUFACTURERS OF
BOX SHOOKS. CRATING, CLOTH BOARDS & BRICK PALLETS,
LUMBER AT WHOLESALE
WHITE PINE- YELLOW PI N E - H EM LOCK.
anti not a a roprooontod by your Ur. Loalor.
Wo thought poaoibly you night v/ant to look in to thio
matter personally, What •'/o have given you abovo aro absolute facta.
Wo ahull bo glad to hoar from you.
\ /
EDISON PHONOGRAPH WORKS. ryyj .
Jan. 10, 191
Mr. T. J. Wilson, V,
V/iloon Lunbor^f! Do;: Co.,
Eoneronda, II. Y.
Dour Dir:
Youro of tho IGtJi toot, has boon duly rcooivod, and
also t.ao copy sont to ...r< Edison t|„\o boon referred to no.
In loolring into- the cr.ttor an tx so I liavo boon
ablo to, I find thu t3:o roaaon Hr. loaning did not continue
hio negotiations wit3i you too that tho samplo carload of '
lurVboi' pent ua v;ao not Ho. 1 white pino, but oontainod. a lurgf
proportion of other and ohoapor woods. Our own luportotond-
ont onaninnd this oarlo., d of lilnbor and roportod th t it aon-
t- inod a nunbor of honlool: boardp, but wo found upon rof rrinjj '■
tho realtor to an outaido osport that it did not, apparently,
contain honlock but did oontain bass-wood, ootton-v.ood, homey
Pino, opruoo end Ho. a whito pino. Shin latter report too
reedo after tho roooipt of your lottor, in ordor that I night
b noro fully udvinod ec to tho 'situation.
• While Hr. looning might liavo boon Juotifiod in do- '
oiding that -if you could not furnloh uo a oorroot oanplo of
tho netori.'-.l wr.ntod it v/ould bo e wasto of tir.-.o to nogotiato
.mth you for a conoidorablo contract , ho was oortainly not
Justified in naming a dofinito appototnont with you end tiion
not hooping it, and ho admits now that ho should not liavo dono
oo- I an sorry that a. diocourtocy of this sort should h vo
■ J. 171 la on.
faj
EDISON PHONOGRAPH WORKS.
1/10/10.
toon ahom you by a roproooatativo of thic conpcny. it
would taw toon far tottor for I,ooninG to havo not you in
porfoot frcnlaioDB and throated out the -. hole ouoatlon, in-
otond of talUne the o outgo ho did, end I have nado it clour
to tin that laiate&oa of judCnont of thio oort mot not to mdo
in tho futuro.
I than!: you very rrach for trincinc thic mttor to
137 “W<mtl0a’ aiUl 2 hC"° - “o in the naiirot for luntor
uGam you nay not hnvo u lil:o opportunity for criticion. '
Your a vory truly,
General Mareor.
Collpotor of Internal Revenue,
jPoot Office Building,
/ Ilonarlc, II. J.
■Sir: '
j
I hand you heronith tho return of the annual not incomo
for tho yoar onding Booomhor 31, 1909, of the Hdloon Phonograph
VTorho, provided for in Section 00 of tho Aot of Congress approved’
August 5, 1909.
In mailing this rotuxn v o rospootfully comply witlitj^e ■
lav/ ruder protost, rosorving all rights and claiming that the lan
under y/hioh this information is given is on invalid infringomont
of tho rights of this corporation ur.dor tho Ians and Constitution
of tho Unitod Statos and tho lav/s of tho Stoto of lion Jorsey, hy
tho powers of which its corporate oristonco was croated.
Tory rospootfully,
pid/it/vi
General Llanagor.
D
lilt?
P *)7 Vft-M.
eAiAo.
Tho Muaio Waster woodon horn Is of tho somo dimensiono as
tha hall of our olavan-potal horn, which 1« u«»d on our Triumph
and Idolia aaohinas, and, therefore, the regular Triumph and
Idalla crones will do for tho woodon horn.
It should ho undarotood that when wo put out tho Modal 0
roproducar with tho Triumph and Idolia machines, a now orano
In to bo mado, which, of course, win do for tho woodon horn.
The foregoing applies if wa uco our rogulttr aotal oonnactionj
tut if we use tho now rubber connection, the standard of the
orunas must bo 1 1/4 lnohao longor.
On tho Homo, Standard and Firesldo maohinos wo use. our
ton-petal Cygnet horn. *e find that the crane which we made
for tho Model 0 reproducer in connection with tho Triumph and
Idolia maohinos, will bo all right for tho Homo, Standard and
Pi rani da machines with tho woodon horn, with tho exception
that the standard must be 2 3/4 inches shorter if m use the
regular metal connection, or 1 1/4 i„0h90 shorter if wo adopt
tho rubber connection.
I talcs pleasure in handing you herewith General
Expenses Report of the Edison Phono ©-aph Works, showing in detail fo!‘
three months ending May 31st 1910 compared .vith three months ending
May 31at 1909,vfoich as you will see shows -an increase for this quarter
over that of the previous year of §24,143.62. I have iaarked the
morg important items and submit the following as explanation of the
increases :«
SUPERINTENDENTS
PRODUCTION1
TRANSCRIBING DEPT
Phonograph Company,
companies.
MISCELLANEOUS
LEGAL EXPENSES
of previous year and partly to increase in legal charges.
STOCK CLERKS Due to new system installed requiring more
help; hut some of this extra help has since
been laid off so that the next quarterly report will show a
reduction.
LABORERS Shop order No. 4782 issued to cover all general
laboring work used in connection with handling
raw material, shows an increase in pay-roll of §1200.00 over the
same period of last year.
Shop order No. 4053 issued to cover all general
laboring work throughout the yard, shows an increase in pay-roll
over la3t year of between §300.00 and §400.00
AUTOMOBILE During thi3 year there were purchased a lot of
" ~ cells, amounting to §1476.00, for the
automobiles, and the balance is increase in pay-roll.
FREIGHT & EXPRESS Duty & Custom charges on sapphires erroneously
distributed to Freight & Express — will
transfer from General Expense to Phonograph Material.
MAINTENANCE OP TOOLS Increase caused by having to make over a
great many jigs and dies, and repairing and
renewing machinery.
OIL .... Increase in actual purchases of the various
kinds of oil, as compared with the same period
of the previous year.
POLISHING & NICKEL PLATINO Increase in purchases
PACKING & BOXING 3hop order No. 4062 issued to oover labor and
material covering Phonos, Numbering Uaohines
and Parts, and blocking of Phonos in Assembling Department, shows an
increase of about §400.00 over the same period of last year.
Shop order No. 4814 issued to cover labor and
material to block up Amberola Phonoa and Cabinets for shipment,
accounts for the balanoe of the difference, inasmuch as we did not
have these machines during the first quarter of the previous year.
Increase due to increase in salaries.
Last year all of the expense of. the Transcrib¬
ing Department was borne by the National
This year it is apportioned over the several
Increase In pay-roll ofV§400.00
Mr.
F. L. Dyer
Sheet 2
9/3/iO
LIGHT ,KBAT & POWER Represents stocking up of coal, principally
during the month of March, in anticipation of
a threatened strike.
Of the items of expense pertaining to BathB lif g. Co. ,
you will notice Legal Expenses for the quarter ending May Slot 1910
exceed the same expenses for the same period, of the previous year by
#833.77, otherwise the total of the expenses for the hates Mfg. Co.,
ia less this year than for the same period of the previous year.
I have arranged to furnish you wi th these monthly
reports so ao to keep you advised. I am sending copies of this
letter and report to Mess. Wilson and Weber and will hereafter furnish
them with copies of future reports that, will be sent to you, so they
can be kept posted.
Similar reports are being made up for the other
companies which I win forward as soon as completed.
E. I. Berggren
[ENCLOSURE]
1910
Officials
Superintendents
Accounting Dept.
Purchasing & Cost Dept.
Production
Shipping & Order Dept.
Time or Pay Roll
Billing Dept.
Traffic Dept.
Transcribing Dept.
Miscellaneous
Legal 10xpen3es
Telephone Service
Inspectors
Stock Clerks
Shipping Clerks
Shop Clerks
Watchmen
Messengers, Carfare, -It c ,
Yard Poremen
Laborers
Stable
Automobile
Cartage ,
Bxtra Labor
Experimental
Prt . .c Express
Pi re Dept,
Imp. A: Gen'L Repairs
Int. <:i Discount
Maint. of Tools
Oil
Polishing & Nickel Plate
Printing & Stationery
Packing & Boxing
Patterns & Drawings
Power, Heat & Light
Postage
Rent
Tellegraph
Travel
waste
Systematizing
Rebillod
4445.36
4030.00
3851.11
3930.50
3913.66
1143.00
1387.00
1113.33
302.50
6950.38
087.19
445.79
975.00
5540.47
1884.94
948.17
245.41
0887.02
144.00
4279.54
231.89
601.95
996.09
2698.57
193.83
2499.35
460.25
20520.42
2100.34
4260.34
1058.57
13671.35
2929.72
18102.93
70.59
303.00
24.04
48.35
324.78
Insurance
Bates Mf r.. Co.
Sales
Adv.
Carfare
Prt. & Kxp.
Int. & Discount
Legal
Mi sc.
Printing & Stationery
Post
Salesmen's Expenses
Telephone
Telegraph
Rent
Rxtra Labor
Ehtertainraent
^ . -i - 2. ,ai_ _
122906.14
1295.00
689.43
15.60
110.51
190.72
1084.42
4.40
55.51
117.63
163.55
7.08
7.63
300.00
2.25
_ _ 2.80
/Za&o _ ‘rty'FC -rS
1909
*
X
t
X
4484.88
3445.00
2891.07
2872.00
3374.00
1438.00
1310.67
1032.50
497.50
6534.58
11.02
421.90
910.00
4953.33
32.40
1800.36
915.74
246.73
7362.54
156.00
2483.52
287.97
1688.63
605.27
736.17
- 1869,90
2124.25
16902.48
1192.64
2411.21
776.00
12259.79
1344.86
8149.94
72.77
303.00
11.25
42.75
534.12
3693.28
1997.07
5j00
99459.55
1313.00'
601.36
12.51
34.59
193.54
200.65
9.64
129.23
86.12-
275.30
' 37.44
3.87
450.00
2.25
102809.05
EDISON PHONOGRAPH YORKS
STATEMENT OF EARNINGS AND EXPENSES
FOR THE SEVEN MONTHS ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH 1910 - 1909.
Based on an estimated gross grofit determined oy uaing the
percentage of gross profit realized for the fiscal year 1909.
1910
SALES
Quantity
Values
Quantity
Values
Phonographs
Cabinets
Wax
Projecting Kinetoscopes
Aut. Numbering Machines
Bates Merchandise
Fan Motors
Material Sales
Miscellaneous
45784
1097
4005
224
438889.30
82324.84
200250.52
48891.83
38686.25
1481.87
1077.76
6344.43
37112.17
63496
1091
3377
214
450253.66
108825.32
203363.98
40783.83
32230.44
1175.93
1851.29
3947.90
25819.46
Total Sales
855058.97
868251.80
GROSS PROFITS
Phonographs
Cabinets
Wax
Projecting Kinetoscopes
Aut. Numbering Machines
Bates Merchandise
Fan Motors
Material Sales
Miscellaneous
99627.87
22721.66
69286.68
16721.01
22321.97
797.25
816.94
1091.24
14213.96
102207.58
30035.79
70363.94
13948.07
18596.96
632.65
1403.28
679.04
9888.85
TOTAL ESTIMATED GROSS PROFITS
247598.58
247756.16
EXPENSE
Officials
Superintendents
Accounting Dept.
Purchasing & Cost Dept.
Production Dept.
Shipping & Order Dept.
Pay Roll Dept.
Billing Dept.
Traffic Dept.
Transcribing Dept.
Miscellaneous Help
Legal Expense
Telephone Service
Inspectors
Stock Clerks
Shipping Clerks
Shop Clerks
Y/atchmen
Messengers, Carfare & Etc.
Laborers,
Stable
Automobile
Cartage
Extra Labor
Experimental
Ereight & Express
Eire Dept.
Inp. & Gen'l Repairs
Interest & Discount
Maint. of Tools
Oil
Polishing & Nickel Plating
Printing & Stationery
Packing & Boxing
Patterns & Drawings
Power, Heat & Light
Postage
Rent
Telegraph
Travel
Waste
Systematizing
Insurance
Taxes
Chari ty
Miscellaneous Material
Total
Bates Mfg, Cp. Gen'l Expense
10772.96
9570.00
7104.61
6733.00
8555.00
2547.00
2780.00
2634.00
1075.00
488.50
9328.50
4307.10
980.14
2250.00
11879.43
60.00
3727.75
2158.27
518.43
17880.77
254.37
10016.23
818.67
601.95
775.03
1365.23
252.12
4992,66
608.29
39469.20
3619,37
7432.46
1598.50
29417.31
6279.47
25917.69
150.20
0Y.U4
80.65
772.02
6677.36
1456.11
50.00
378.59
“245812.40
9490.99
10292.80
7990.00
6558.20
6891.00
7801.00
3217.00
2948.83
2197.00
939.50
135.00
8381.50
860.86
1008.94
2170.00
11017.26
67.10
3735.43
2082.90
550.49
16782.25
264.00
8444.21
862.47
1688.63
1605.69
2997.24
165.05
2790.00
4674.14
37991.96
3343.13
4380.73
1445.39
34719.33
3171.20
18186.38
169.56
707.00
26.13
271.75
1195.05
5431.33
11000.55
60.00
5923.10
236378.80
8476.62
TOTAL GENERAL EXPENSE
255303.39
244855.42
Edison Mfg. Co. Int. Aoct.
2630.50
424.05
Nat'l Phono, Co. " "
9454,15
18559.84
Bond Interest
5400.00
5700.00
GRAND TOTAL
272788.04
269539.31
ESTIMATED NET LOSS
25189.46
21783.15
1910. Radio (D-10-53)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
technical and commercial development of wireless telegraphy or radio. The
items for 1910 consist primarily of correspondence with the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph Co. of America regarding the renewal of notes held by Edison. Also
included are letters of inquiry and items pertaining to Patrick Delany and his
"telepost" system.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include unsolicited inquiries and most of the
communications of the Marconi company.
Thomas A. Edison, Esc*.,
Llewellyn Park,
Orange, N.J,
I 3^ Ovw U-E^-tf VUAvciv
luLCcn l^cut \Qc- Ga fvCLO itiv-uwA^r^^..
G*?v»v<.y -’/vWCu'.e vtk£&J •=?\p}*.s. Ka.4J-«»
£_£jtJL ck Vi Jnt) ^Mvut LOt-Cfc.
ll/xek o-f «kfefi^eioX«rw. ■+- }{U„ lu.t_<if-ywv &Cg
Our Note for $4,800. fills diie on May 1st next and it
'J) isrcZKci, uAo -2|et-fCc-*J 2*»*r«
would he a very great convenience to tfcis Comptoiy if you wjbuld * I
again permit a renewal for one 7ou^^^ wS^^al^
Bend you interest on this note, ancTon/the other to
This Company during the past year has don^exc optionally
wfill, and I have the pleasure of enclosing to you a synopsis of our
Profit and Loss Account which may interest you, and hy which you
wif1 see that ths Company made a net earning on the gross working
of $16,637.41. In accordance with the usual custom 1C>£ depreoia-
tija was taken off the amount standing to the dehit of station
e'xi Pments, vizi $12,936.41 so that the company made an actual pro-
^ last year of $3,701,
Mr. Karoonl is now at Glaoe Bay, N.S. putting the station
I'.A.E. -3-
there in thorough order and we expect to hear from Trim very short¬
ly that work aoross the ocean is an accomplished fact and that it
will continue throughout the year without any breakdown.
I am
Yours very truly,
MARCONI WIRELESS
Enclosure. Vice^P^Ident. "
[ENCLOSURE]
syrapsis oy jtRoiaa; ajj.d loss sxAnaaan:. _
«r<oss
M£Si2?J£yi®2. imp?. prams. jsariiXjtgs.
Bx-iwtWft of Stations, 62,038.88 Iruffio a/c 31,089.08 93,067.96
. lolls ywAg. <s)w.rg«j, ll,«33.0o Howl Office, 730.16; 12,305,22
Cost of installations) Sales from
«id maWi&l used. ) 88,320.28 stock,
Comn.or advertising ) Atlantic
solicitors, ) 2,260,00 Daily Hews
not recpts.
Salaries Officers, ) Short Vr'irc
Engineer w Ofc.chgs. ) .13,2.%, 34- Profits,
Saxes,
Sent,
Postage, printing
telegrams, traveling
«o»,
Interest,
Sundries,
Balance,
10,630.15
166.08
1.013.71
43,469.18
26 f 851. 77
2,471.53
1,046.99
2, 093.60
16.637. 41
141,741.34
38,8.60.37
2,436.08
1,013.71
6,481.10 Oon.flx.
forking
3,000.01 profit, §16,037.41
Balance profit,
Depreciation on
equipments 10^>,
16, 637.. 11
12.930.41
§ 3,701.00
„-Njf UU.
€l.o- '-p-J wv^u^-u
tfc^ c^o^us^^j^1^3yv
op~ S (..£«-*-*] c-©»*,G.<J. fertile. W-ft
A - Ml snn Wen I ’ ['
i ,55
Thos. A. Edison, Esq.:
“TSi-*” SOT— /-■— •» CKK*-'i*«'
D“P Slr"^ «< -ecu, 3 *U-v, ^ 3>*^
Having beenQjorn in Port Huron, Michigan, and having
AT CS. ’y L-kj-M^-N OI.'.C
lived there moat of my/fcoyhood days, 1 feel that in writing
5t jUA**j*Aty ^ CMC r£.'£<la-*> <3&(Sr*~*r*t \AX/7^t.uyy
”me you "will give this letter more
you that I may perhaps 'as sumey6u,'w'iri"’glve
II
attention than were I unknown to you. The matter <jj^v/ireless
telegraphy has recently been brought to my attentisfl-A»-t'Kat my
clients the Junior Wireless Club, of New>»Srk Hty asked me to
represent them in organizing a national mb^ement to delay
action by Congress on the bills to regulate Jrireless until the
amatuers could all be heard.
It is amazing how many intelligent toys have
stimulated into experimental work by the- introduction of the
wireless. The hasty passage of any of the bills now pending
would mean that the activities of these boys might be driven to
less worthy pursuits.
If you feel that you could spare, say about one-half an
hour within the next ten days to meet a delegation of three or
four New York toys who would like to outline to you the plans of
the amatuers, I will be very glad to arrange an interview entire¬
ly at your convenience. With much respect, I am,
Very sincerely.
Elliot Crason Gold Medal,
iBLEPtkr
PATRICK B. DELANY, E. E.
Nantucket, Mass. J
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272 Seventy-fourth. Street,
Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. I, 1910.
Dear Sir or Madam :
After next Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of
America’s annual meeting, our committee will send report of pro¬
gress made in out* present minority stockholders movement, only
io those who furnish their own stampped and addressed envelopes now,
which you should at least furnish if you cannot afford to contribute
the ten cents towards the cost of printing, etc., as per our request
contained in “Square Deal” letter dated June 1st and mailed to
all stockholders of record August 24th, — that is to say, 1909
record. (We did not send any to those whose address is given
care of stock brokers.) If you are not interested enough to com¬
ply with request of our letter above referred to, we will drop the
whole matter after next annual meeting of the Marconi Company, St
at which time we are going to send our report to all those who did
send at least a stamped and addressed envelope as previously re-
We positively cannot again undertake to furnish and address
more envelopes to. all stockholders of record as we have already
done. We minority stockholders ought to organize to hold the
management of our property in check in their future acts, other¬
wise they may want to issue bonds or preferred stock later on,
then where will you be? But if minority stock is represented at
future meetings we can block such action if we receive a sufficient
number of shares to vote bv proxy.
I, personally, am not fighting for my 20 shares, 10 at $65.00
eight years ago, and 10 at $30.00 three years ago, total $950.00,
but for principle and out of sympathy for the poor widows, etc.,
who own stock at $140.00 per share and less, which now is worth
but $25.00 on record and about $7.00 or $7.50 if offered for sale
on the market now. Have offered the President of the United
States, under date August 10, 1910, my shares free and clear if he
will accept them and take up the fight in the interest of the poor
people. (No reply has reached me to date from the President.)
To all of the above truth and in the interest of a square deal,
I solemnly and sincerely swear, so help me God.
Wm. R. James,
Chairman of Committee.
October
Eighteenth
19 10
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
West Orange, K. J.
Bear Sirs
Out of the hundreds of readers
who write this Bureau every month about * ^ I J
investments a good many have ashed about
Mr. Patrick B. Belaney.
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Gdrjq-H1
This gentleman is given as an
"associate of Thomas A. Edison's" by the
conoem which sells stocks in an invention
called the Telepost. Mr. Delaney as the
inventor is named as "one of the foremost
telegraphers and electricians".
Many of our readers have bought fl'krcK.
on the understanding that this invention is
to supersede the Morse system entirely, and
that it is in practical commercial operation
— that it costs more than 30ji to send ten
words by the Morse system, whereas it costs
the Telepost less than lljl.
Any information you could send could
be used by us to be of value to hundreds of
people. If you want us to keep your name con¬
fidential, we shall be entirely glad to do so.
Very- truly yours.
1 0rvvC« -jo* - & tttfs.
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1910. West Orange Laboratory (D-10-55)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
operation of the West Orange laboratory. Included are items regarding the
formation of an engineering and experimental department at the laboratory and
the invention of a drying apparatus for photographic plates by Alexander N.
Pierman. There are also letters concerning the forfeiture of the charter of the
Ott Manufacturing Co., as well as memoranda and other items pertaining to
equipment, scrap metal, chemicals, and supplies.
Approximately 10 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include statements, acknowledgments and receipts, bills of
lading, routine correspondence about supplies and equipment, and documents
that duplicate information in selected material.
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MEMORANDUM
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January 26, 1910.
As you know Mr. Edison hao'cLeoided to install at tho
laboratory an Engineering and Experimental Department which will have
charge of tho ontiro developments /■£ new machines to bo manufactured
hero. They will turn over to us a complete working imchine for ap¬
proval of tho Executive dommitteo and when that is done the machine
will be turned ovor to thD Manufacturing poople and the proper tools,
etc. made. 1 wish you would think ovor tho mattor end let mo know
whether you believe tho Engineering and Experimental Department
should be maintainod by tho national Company or £y the Laboratory, .und
if the former whether the cost should be divided among
the various manufacturing concerns and what tho
proposition should be.
F. 1. D.
FLDi'CVH
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Mi-. Dyer:
I am of the opinion that the entire Engineering and
Experimental department should be on the Laboratory pay-roll. Harry
Miller oan then charge the different companies with any work they may
do for them. All laboratory work is now charged to our different
companies, and if we attempt to carry part of the force on our payroll
and the laboratory carry part on their payroll, it will only result in
confusion; then in the event of the production of any patentable
article it would be better to show directly on the books of Thomas A.
Edison than on our books. It would not look well for the national
Company to work under a license from the N. J. Eatent Co. for something
that the National Company show by their books that they had developed.
For the above reasons I think it wise to have the laboratory carry the
department. We indirectly furnish the cash to carry them anyway.
1/^7/iO.
A. Wei
[TO HARRY F. MILLER]
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Keplymj; to your letter of the 17th instant (J J
would Bay that we have no use for the Ifickol Steel . /
Scrap mentioned for sale and will not, thorofo**-^^
na.Me a price for the sane,
Will' : 7/TR
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June 25, 1910.
. ''Ir. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, IT. j.
Dear Sir:-
The morrin Climax toiler Company, of Brooklyn,
H.y. , have asked us to allow them to hid on any work we my
have in their line, and have given you as one of their
references.
Will you kindly advise whether or not their work
was satisfactory and if you recommend that they he awarded
contracts in oase they are low bidders.
Any information you may furnish will he considered
confidential.
Yours truly,
4-£r o/.<ly
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[ENCLOSURE]
MILLER REESE HUTCHISON
ENGINEER
SO CHURCH STREET
October 31, 1910,
A. N, Pierman,
387 Orange Street,
Newark, N. J.
My dear Mr. Peirman,-
I have your letter of the 30th of September
which would have been answered sooner, but for my absehoe from the
city,
I have absolutely no affiliation with
photograph machine manufacturers, and therefore I cannot be of
any service to you in this- matter . The machine itself appeals
to me as being very practical and useful.
Why would it not be a good plan fory0u to
take the matter up with some of the large dry-plate or
camera manufacturers? I think they would be glad to put you
in touch with some concerns who would he interested in looking
into the matter.
In addressing them, 1 suggest your mentioning
•the fact that you are in Mr, Edison's employ, as that should
carry wQight,
WILLIAMS & PETERS
No. 1 BROADWAY, N. Y. CITY.
PENNSYLVANIA COAL CO.
HILLSIDE COAL & IRON CO.
NORTHWESTERN MINING & EXCHANGE CO.
BLOSSBURG COAL CO.
„ s , York, jY.ovf\4, 1
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Tuesday, November 15th,
Taking effect Tuesday, November loth,
1910, the price of Buckwheat, Bice and ?
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Hot. 21,1910.
Mr. George Eastman,
Eastman Kodak Company,
Eochcster, II, Y.
My aoar Mr. Eastman: -
V.’ouia you te in any way interested
• in the enolosea patent to Mr. Alexander II. Picnnan, Ho. '
970,108, bate a September IS, 1910, in which I own a half
interest? Mr. Picmaan is one of Mr. Edison' s experiment¬
ers ana 1 think is a very capahlo inventor. Ho tells me
that the average time required to dry a plate, winter
ana summer, in tho usual way, is eight ana one-quarter
hours, hut that with his machine tho plate can he ariea
in about forty-five minutes. Mr. Pierman has made a
model of tho machine , ana if you are in any way interest¬
ed I will send it on, so that you can test it and see if
thoro is anything in the suggestion. I might say that
the. motor used with tho machine is an ordinary disk talk-
teg machine motor, ana those can ho purchased very cheaply.
irR - Hr. Goorgo Eastman.
Enclosed I also hand yon a photograph of tho actnal
maohine, from which you will probably get a better idea
of its construction than from the patent itself.
Yours .very truly, j
EID/dRIC.
Enos.
Vi oe -Ere si dent ,
[ATTACHMENT]
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Jan. 3 ,
i\
1910.
Hr. F. \V. Love joy.
General Manager Manufacturing Departments,
Eastman Kodak Co.,
Rochester, 11. Y.
My clear Sir:
Your favor of tho 30th has heon rooeived, ana I
note that in your opinion tho Pierman Dryer would not for your
purposes he salable to the professional photographer- I
thank you very much for looking into this matter for me.
Yours very truly.
FID/lVAV
Vice-Prosidont.
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1604
MEMORANDUM
llov. SO, 1910.
Mr. 11. 7. Miller: -
Referring to the attached correspond¬
ence, I do not see any need for contimiing the corporate
existence of the Ott Manufacturing Company, and therefore
suggest that the corporation tax should not he paid and
the charter he allowed to forfeit.
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[LIST BY GEORGE A. MEISTER? ]
GENERAL LETTERBOOK SERIES
The twenty-two volumes in this set contain tissue copies of Edison's
correspondence forthe period September 1899-March 191 1 . In addition, the first
letterbook in this set includes several letters from November 1 892-August 1 894.
Although there are occasional letters in Edison's hand, most of his manuscript
correspondence is in the hand of John F. Randolph or Harry F. Miller, acting as
his secretary. Similarly, the retained copies of Edison's typewritten letters are
frequently signed or initialed by one of his secretaries.
Many of the letters relate to ore mining and milling and to the erection and
operation of Edison's cement plant in Stewartsville, New Jersey. Some letters
pertain to iron ore concentration in the Dunderland region of Norway, in
connection with the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd., while others concern
Edison's plans forgold ore concentration at the Ortiz mine in New Mexico. There
are also letters regarding the business and financial requirements of the Edison
Portland Cement Co., including correspondence pertaining to royalties collected
by the Edison Crushing Roll Co. and to Edison’s search for markets for his
cement. Other letters deal with the development of Edison's alkaline storage
battery and the financial and industrial arrangements for its manufacture and
distribution in the United States and abroad. Included is correspondence
discussing technical difficulties that led to the shutdown of the battery factory in
Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in 1905. Additional documents describe ongoing
progress on the improved storage battery and its proposed use in automobiles,
trucks, submarines, and streetcars. There are also numerous items regarding
the planning, design, and production of molds and patterns for use in the
construction of the Edison concrete house, which was intended as affordable
housing for the working class. Other documents deal with the domestic and
foreign phonograph business, the motion picture business, Edison’s experiments
with x-rays, personnel matters, and legal concerns.
Among the many letters relating to Edison’s personal and family affairs are
items pertaining to his health, diet, and sleeping habits; his opinions and
prejudices on a variety of social, religious, political, and economic issues; the
activities of his children, particularly Thomas A. Edison, Jr., and William Leslie
Edison; his membership in clubs and societies; his book and journal orders; his
charitable donations; improvements at Glenmont; and the upkeep of his winter
home in Fort Myers, Florida. Many of the letters consist of replies to unsolicited
requests and inquiries, particularly in regard to employment, Edison’s projected
concrete house, and inventions proposed by others.
Approximately 20 percent of the letters have been selected. All substantive
letters pertaining to Edison's business operations and to his personal affairs have
been selected. The following categories of documents have not been selected:
routine letters of transmittal and acknowledgment; non-substantive
correspondence concerning the ordering and shipment of materials; letters about
routine financial transactions; routine or repetitive responses to letters from
individuals seeking employment, requesting advice, and offering advice;
responses to other unsolicited correspondence; and letters duplicating the
information in Edison's handwritten responses to the incoming correspondence
selected in the Document File Series. The index at the beginning of each book
has not been selected.
The books are arranged in chronological order. Although every technical
effort has been made to ensure the legibility of the documents on the microfilm,
most of the books contain some pages that are difficultto read. Some letters may
be partially or entirely unreadable because of spreading or smearing ink or light
imprints. In addition, there are occasional pages that are wrinkled or torn.
Other letterbooks for the period 1899-1910 can be found in many of the
collections in the Company Records Series, including the records of the Edison
Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.; the Edison Storage Battery Co.; and the National
Phonograph Co. Unbound tissue copies of outgoing correspondence and
interoffice memoranda can be found in the Document File Series and in most of
the company record groups.
Letterbook, LB-064
This letterbook covers the periods November 1892-August 1894 and September 1899-
June 1 900. The correspondence from the early period is primarily by William S. Logue, writing on
behalf of the Edison Manufacturing Co., regarding the installation of Edison’s phonoplex system.
Most of the letters from the later period are by Edison and John F. Randolph. They pertain to the
reopening of the iron ore concentration plant at Ogden, New Jersey; the erection of a plant in the
Dunderland region of Norway, in connection with the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.; plans for
an experimental mill at the Ortiz gold mine in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the construction of a
plant at Stewartsville, New Jersey, for the manufacture of cement. Also included are numerous
other items relating to Edison's interest in ore milling, mines, and ores, as well as letters
concerning the domestic and foreign phonograph business; the motion picture business; engines,
dynamos, and other supplies and equipment; legal concerns; Edison's family, health, and
finances; and other personal matters. One item pertains to Edison's early work on the telephone
and the royalties paid him by the Western Union and Bell companies.
Letterbook, LB-065
This letterbook covers the period June 1900-April 1901 . Most of the correspondence is by
Edison and John F Randolph. There are also letters by Cloyd M. Chapman, Walter S. Mallory,
and others. The letters relate to the shutdown of Edison's iron ore concentration plant at Ogden,
New Jersey; the planning and construction of his cement plant at Stewartsville, New Jersey; gold
mining and ore concentration operations at the Ortiz mine in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the
erection of an iron ore concentration plant in the Dunderland region of Norway, in connection with
the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd. Also included are other items pertaining to Edison's interest
in ore milling, mines, and ores, as well as letters regarding the domestic and foreign phonograph
business, Edison's plans for his storage battery, orders for equipment and supplies, and family
and other personal matters.
Letterbook, LB-066
This letterbook covers the period April-September 1 901 . Most of the correspondence is by
Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters by Herman E. Dick, Walters. Mallory, and
others. Many of the items relate to the planning and construction of the Edison Portland Cement
Co. plant at Stewartsville, New Jersey, and to Edison's investment in that company. There are also
numerous letters concerning the development of Edison’s alkaline storage battery and the
financial and industrial arrangements for its manufacture. Also included are letters regarding the
erection of an iron ore concentration plant in the Dunderland region of Norway, in connection with
the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd., as well as other items pertaining to Edison's interest in ore
milling, mines, and ores. There is some material dealing with the domestic and foreign phonograph
business, including statements of the assets and liabilities of the Edison Phonograph Works for
1899-1901; orders for equipment and supplies; and family and other personal matters.
Letterbook, LB-067
This letterbook covers the period September 1901-March 1902. Most of the
correspondence is by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters by Walter S. Mallory,
John V. Miller, and others. Many of the items relate to the planning and construction of the Edison
Portland Cement Co. plant at Stewartsville, New Jersey. There are also numerous letters
concerning the technical and commercial development of Edison’s alkaline storage battery and
Edison’s search in the Sudbury district of Ontario and other locations for sources of nickel for his
battery. Also included are letters regarding the erection of an iron ore concentration plant in the
Dunderland region of Norway, in connection with the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd., as well
as other items pertaining to Edison's interest in ore milling, mines, and ores. There are also a few
letters dealing with the domestic phonograph business and the defunct Edison United Phonograph
Co. Among the items relating to family and personal matters are several letters to Kermit
Roosevelt regarding an exchange of autographs between Edison and Theodore Roosevelt,
correspondence with Herman E. Dick concerning Edison's health problems, and a letter to Thomas
C. Martin about Edison's etheric force experiments in 1875.
Letterbook, LB-068
This letterbook covers the period March 1902-January 1903. Most of the correspondence
is by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters by Walters. Mallory, John V. Miller, and
others. Many of the items relate to the planning, construction, and financing of the Edison Portland
Cement Co. plant at Stewartsville, New Jersey. There is also correspondence concerning the
technical development of Edison's alkaline storage battery, arrangements for its manufacture and
sale in the United States and Great Britain, and its use in electric vehicles, as well as letters
pertaining to the organization of the Mining Exploration Co. of New Jersey to finance Edison's
search for nickel in the Sudbury district of Ontario and other locations. Also included are letters
regarding the erection of the iron ore concentration plant in the Dunderland region of Norway, in
connection with the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd., along with other items pertaining to
Edison's interest in ore milling, mines, and ores. There are a few letters dealing with the domestic
phonograph business and with Edison's efforts to sell his stock in the Edison Gower-Bell
Telephone Co. of Europe. Among the items relating to family and personal matters are several
letters to Lord Kelvin concerning a dinner and a tour of the West Orange laboratory.
Letterbook, LB-069
This letterbook covers the period January-October 1903. Most of the correspondence is
by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters by Walter S. Mallory and others. Many
of the items relate to the construction and financing of the Edison Portland Cement Co. plant at
Stewartsville, New Jersey. Included are references to the fire at the plant in March 1 903 that killed
eight workers. There is also correspondence concerning the technical and commercial
development of Edison's alkaline storage battery and its use in electric vehicles, including a series
of letters to Herman E. Dick regarding its possible foreign exploitation. In addition, there are letters
pertaining to the Mining Exploration Co. of New Jersey; Edison's search for nickel in the Sudbury
district of Ontario and in other locations; and to the organization of the New Jersey Patent Co.
Also included are letters regarding the erection of the iron ore concentration plant in the
Dunderland region of Norway, in connection with the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd., along
with other items pertaining to Edison's interest in ore milling, mines, and ores. There are a few
letters dealing with the domestic phonograph business, as well as a letter describing the
deleterious effects of x-rays on Edison's laboratory assistant, Clarence Dally. Among the items
relating to family and personal matters are several letters concerning the sale of the house at
Menlo Park owned by Edison's oldest daughter, Marion Edison Oeser; a letter from Edison to the
town council of West Orange protesting the granting of a liquor license; and a list by Edison of his
five "most important inventions."
Letterbook, LB-070
This letterbook covers the period October 1903-July 1904. Most of the correspondence is
by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters by Walters. Mallory, Frederick P. Ott, and
others. Many of the items relate to the Edison Portland Cement Co. plant at Stewartsville, New
Jersey, which began operation in September 1 903. There is also correspondence concerning the
technical and commercial development of Edison’s alkaline storage battery and its use in electric
vehicles. Included are a series of letters to Herman E. Dick regarding the possible foreign
exploitation of the storage battery, along with a letter to John Jacob Astor suggesting that he
invest in the Edison Storage Battery Co. In addition, there are letters to John V. Miller pertaining
to the Mining Exploration Co. of New Jersey and to Edison's search for nickel in the Sudbury
district of Ontario and in other locations. Also included are letters regarding the erection of the iron
ore concentration plant in the Dunderland region of Norway, in connection with the Edison Ore
Milling Syndicate, Ltd., along with other items relating to Edison's interest in ore milling, mines, and
ores. There is a letter to Francis Arthur Jones from Randolph's assistant, John A. Boehme,
delineating the organizational structure of the West Orange laboratory and a letter from Edison
to attorney Frank L. Dyer giving him "sole and entire charge of my patent work." A few items refer
to the domestic phonograph business, Edison's experiments with x-rays, and his interest in
acquiring samples of radium. Among the items relating to family and personal matters are letters
concerning the launch Mina, purchased in February 1902, and a letter containing Edison’s
recollections of the lighting of Menlo Park in December 1879.
Letterbook, LB-071
This letterbook covers the period July 1 904-May 1 905. Most of the correspondence is by
Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters by Mina Miller Edison and others. Many of
the items relate to the business of the Edison Portland Cement Co. Included are references to the
finances of the company and to production difficulties at the factory in Stewartsville, New Jersey.
There is also correspondence concerning the technical and commercial development of Edison's
alkaline storage battery and its use in electric vehicles, and Edison's efforts to persuade John
Jacob Astor to invest in the Edison Storage Battery Co. Also included are letters to Sigmund
Bergmann and John H. Harjes regarding the organization of battery manufacturing companies in
Great Britain, France, and Germany, as well as letters discussing technical difficulties that led to
the shutdown of the battery factory at Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in the fall of 1905. In addition,
there are letters relative to Edison’s interest in ore milling, mines, and ores; to employees and
former employees; and to supplies of chemicals and equipment for the West Orange laboratory.
One letter refers to Edison's intention to start a rubber factory. Another discusses a lawsuit by the
American Graphophone Co. against the National Phonograph Co. Among the items pertaining to
family and personal matters are letters concerning Edison’s health, his election as an honorary
member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, his contributions to the Republican
party, and his properties in Fort Myers, Llewellyn Park, Menlo Park, and New York City.
Letterbook, LB-072
This letterbook covers the period May-November 1 905. Most of the correspondence is by
Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also a few letters by Mina Miller Edison and others.
Included is correspondence with field workers R. D. Casterline, John Morris, and Horace M. Wilson
regarding Edison's search for cobalt ore, as well as numerous other letters pertaining to his
interest in mines and ores. There are also letters discussing Edison's progress on his improved
alkaline storage battery, his plans to reopen his factory in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and the
proposed organization of battery manufacturing companies in France and Germany. In addition,
there are items relating to the business of the Edison Portland Cement Co. and to Edison's search
for markets for his cement. Several letters addressed to Adolph Melzer deal with Edison's work
on phonographs and with a lawsuit by the American Graphophone Co. against the National
Phonograph Co. for the infringement of patents granted to Thomas H. Macdonald. There are also
letters regarding the New York Phonograph Co.’s prolonged legal actions against the National
Phonograph Co. Some letters refer to matters of employment and to supplies of chemicals and
equipment for the West Orange laboratory. Among the items pertaining to family and personal
matters are letters concerning Edison's interest in automobiles and his automobile trips; his
property in Milan, Ohio; and the loan of an old phonograph for exhibition at the Florida State Fair.
Letterbook, LB-073
This letterbook covers the period November 1 905-April 1 906. Most of the correspondence
is by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also a few letters by Mina Miller Edison. Included
is correspondence with field workers R. D. Casterline, John Morris, and Horace M. Wilson
regarding Edison's search for cobalt ore, as well as numerous other letters pertaining to his
interest in mines and ores. There are also letters discussing Edison's progress on his improved
alkaline storage battery and his plans to reopen his factory in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. In addition,
there are items relating to the business of the Edison Portland Cement Co. and to production
problems at the cement plant in Stewartsville, New Jersey. Some letters refer to matters of
employment and to supplies of chemicals and equipment for the West Orange laboratory. One
letter deals with the assignment of Edison's phonograph patents to the New Jersey Patent Co.
There are also two letters from Edison to Josiah C. Reiff mentioning Edison's work on quadruplex
telegraphy during the 1 870s. Among the items pertaining to family and personal matters are letters
concerning Edison's diet and sleeping habits, his interest in automobiles, his railroad investments,
repairs and improvements at Glenmont, and the upkeep of his winter home in Fort Myers, Florida.
Also included is a letter to journalist Arthur Brisbane in which Edison discusses his deafness and
relates an anecdote from his days as a telegraph operator in Louisville, Kentucky.
Letterbook, LB-074
This letterbook covers the period April-September 1 906. Most of the correspondence is by
Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also a few letters by Mina Miller Edison. Many of the
items relate to Edison's search for ores of cobalt and other metals. Included is a letter mentioning
his intent to abandon his cobalt search in Canada and to construct mills to extract cobalt from the
manganese beds of the southern United States. Also included are letters pertaining to Edison's
automobile trip to the manganese belt in North Carolina and adjacent states in May and June. In
addition, there are items relating to the business of the Edison Portland Cement Co.; to Edison's
plans to construct concrete houses; and to his stock holdings in the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate,
Ltd., and the Dunderland Iron Ore Co., Ltd. There are several letters to Josiah C. Reiff discussing
Edison's work on quadruplex telegraphy during the 1870s and Reiffs protracted litigation over
related matters. Also included are letters regarding the accidental death of Edison's associate, A.
Theo E. Wangemann. Some of the letters refer to supplies of chemicals and equipment for the
West Orange laboratory. Among the items pertaining to family and personal matters are letters
concerning Edison's diet; the purchase of property in Fort Myers, Florida, and Milan, Ohio; and the
upkeep of Edison's homes in Llewellyn Park and Fort Myers. Also included is a letter to the Bank
of Metropolis in which Edison declares his net worth to be "over a million dollars."
Letterbook, LB-075
This letterbook covers the period October 1906-June 1907. Most of the correspondence
is by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also some letters by Mina Miller Edison. Many of
the items relate to Edison's search for limestone, cobalt ore, and other ores. Also included are
letters pertaining to the business of the Edison Portland Cement Co.; the operations of the cement
works at Stewartsville, New Jersey; and Edison's progress on his poured concrete house. In
addition, there are letters discussing Edison's work on his alkaline storage battery; the
manufacture of batteries by Sigmund Bergmann in Berlin, Germany; and ore concentration
operations in the Dunderland region of Norway, in connection with the Edison Ore Milling
Syndicate, Ltd. Among the items pertaining to family and personal matters are letters concerning
Edison’s health; his membership in clubs and societies; the upkeep of his winter home at Fort
Myers, Florida; and his donation of five hundred dollars to a public school in Milan, Ohio, for the
purchase of scientific apparatus. Also included is a letter regarding a loan of one thousand dollars
from Edison to his former associate, Edward H. Johnson, as well as a letter by Edison reminiscing
about his early years in Boston and New York.
Letterbook, LB-076
This letterbook covers the period July 1907-May 1908. Most of the correspondence is by
Edison, John F. Randolph, and Harry F. Miller. There are also some letters by Mina Miller Edison.
Many of the items relate to Edison's progress on the concrete house and frequent renewals of
notes for money advanced by Edison to the Edison Portland Cement Co. Also included are letters
pertaining to Edison's work on his alkaline storage battery; the manufacture of batteries by
Sigmund Bergmann in Berlin, Germany; the possible use of bismuth in the battery; and difficulties
at the ore processing plant in the Dunderland region of Norway. In addition, there is
correspondence pertaining to the impending shutdown and attempted sale of the Darby Mine in
Ontario, Canada; a letter by Edison stating that he has "nothing to do with the reproduction of
music by the National Phonograph Co."; and several letters regarding the suicide deaths of John
F. Randolph, Edison's secretary, and William Simpkin, a draftsman for the Dunderland Iron Ore
Co. Also included is a letter to the novelist Theodore Dreiser in which Harry F. Miller conveys
Edison’s permission for an interview. Among the items pertaining to family and personal matters
are letters concerning a second mastoid operation on Edison's ear and his convalescence; his
membership in clubs and societies; and the upkeep of his winter home at Fort Myers, Florida.
Letterbook, LB-077
This letterbook covers the period June-September 1908. Most of the correspondence is
by Edison, Harry F. Miller, and George A. Meister. Many of the letters relate to Edison's accounts
with the Edison Portland Cement Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. There are also letters pertaining to
the design of molds and patterns for Edison's concrete house; Edison's continuing work on his
alkaline storage battery; the manufacture of batteries by Sigmund Bergmann in Berlin, Germany;
and production difficulties at the ore concentration operations in the Dunderland region of Norway!
In addition, there are letters discussing a proposed audit of the National Phonograph Co. and
several other Edison companies; a reduction of 50 to 60 percent in the labor force at the West
Orange factories; a plan to use the phonograph to disseminate the speeches of Republican
presidential nominee William Howard Taft; a bid to provide cement in special waterproof bags for
the construction of the Panama Canal; and Edison's acceptance of the honorary presidency of
the Electrical Exhibition of 1908 in New York City. There are also two letters from George A.
Meister to the novelist Theodore Dreiser regarding interviews for a proposed article about Edison
in the De//neafor magazine. Among the items pertaining to family and personal matters are letters
concerning Edison's health; his membership in clubs and societies; his charitable donations; and
the upkeep of his winter home at Fort Myers, Florida.
Letterbook, LB-078
This letterbook covers the period September 1908-January 1909. Most of the
correspondence is by Edison, Harry F. Miller, and George A. Meister. Many of the letters pertain
to Edison's accounts with the Edison Portland Cement Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. There is also
correspondence regarding further improvements in Edison's alkaline storage battery; continuing
production difficulties at the ore concentration operations in the Dunderland region of Norway; and
the manufacture of batteries by Sigmund Bergmann in Berlin, Germany. Several letters detail
ongoing progress in the design of molds and patterns to be used in the construction of concrete
houses, including a letter to Charles J. Schmelzer in which Edison describes his plan "to build
beautiful houses at such a low cost that the man who works in the ditch can afford to pay the rent."
In addition, there are letters concerning the production of a railway vehicle powered by Edison
storage batteries; the proposed use of Edison's cement on Pennsylvania state highways and its
actual performance in several construction projects in New York City; and a request from Edison
to Colonel George W. Goethals, chairman and chief engineer of the Panama Canal, to test twelve
waterproof cement bags. Among the items relating to family and personal matters are letters
pertaining to Edison's health and diet; his membership in clubs and societies; his charitable
donations; and the upkeep of his winter home at Fort Myers, Florida. Also included are letters
regarding Edison's recollections of his experiments with etheric force and the invention of the
phonograph; his opinion of talking films; his suggestion for a treatment of gout; and a visit to the
laboratory by Lord Northcliffe. There is also one letter to a school principal in which Edison
discusses the function of "Broca cells” in the human brain and their effect on the human
personality.
Letterbook, LB-079
This letterbook covers the period January-May 1909. Most of the correspondence is by
Edison, Harry F. Miller, and George A. Meister. Many of the letters pertain to laboratory work and
supplies and to Edison's accounts with the Edison Portland Cement Co. and J.P. Morgan & Co.
Numerous letters defer business for the duration of Edison's vacation in Fort Myers, Florida. In
addition, there is correspondence involving the iron ore concentration plant in the Dunderland
region of Norway; improvements in Edison's alkaline storage battery; and the manufacture of
batteries by Sigmund Bergmann in Berlin, Germany. Several letters detail ongoing progress in the
development of Edison's concrete house. Included is a letter in which Harry F. Miller calculates
the expected cost of a six-room house, as well as a letter in which Edison explains how affordable
housing can function as a means of social uplift for the working class. There is also a letter to
Horace F. Parshall in which Edison describes a storage battery being produced for use in a
General Electric Co. streetcar. Among the items relating to personal matters are letters regarding
Edison's family, health, finances, and charitable donations. Also included is a letter to William J.
Dealy in which Edison reminisces about his days as a telegraph operator in Memphis, Tennessee.
Letterbook, LB-080
This letterbook covers the period May-September 1 909. Most of the correspondence is by
Edison, Harry F. Miller, and George A. Meister. Many of the letters pertain to the business of the
Edison Portland Cement Co. and to Edison’s accounts with J.P. Morgan & Co. Also included is
correspondence regarding the ongoing manufacture of molds and patterns to be used in the
construction of concrete houses, as well as letters discussing the continuing management and
production difficulties at the ore concentration plant in the Dunderland region of Norway. In
addition, there are letters concerning Edison's work on his alkaline storage battery, including a
letter to Levi C. Weir, president of Adams Express Co., in which Edison describes his new battery
as "an almost perfect instrument" and a letter to Sigmund Bergmann in which he mentions the
testing of the battery on the submarines of the Italian navy. Among the items relating to family and
personal matters are letters pertaining to Edison's opinion on the use of his kinetoscope as an
educational tool in schools; his acceptance of a position on the Honorary Committee of the
American Exposition in Berlin, Germany; and his recollections of the first central station for electric
lighting. In addition, there are several letters involving the health problems of Thomas A. Edison
Jr.
Letterbook, LB-081
This letterbook covers the period September 1909-February 1910. Most of the
correspondence is by Edison, Harry F. Miller, and George A. Meister. Many of the letters relate
to laboratory work and supplies and to Edison's accounts with the Edison Portland Cement Co.
and J.P. Morgan & Co. There is also correspondence regarding the resumption of production of
Edison's alkaline storage battery; the manufacture of batteries in Germany and Great Britain; and
ongoing progress in the development of molds and patterns to be used in the construction of the
concrete house. Also included is a letter to J. A. Bensel, president of the New York City Board of
Water Supply, in which Edison discusses a contract to supply cement for the construction of part
of the Catskill aqueduct. Among the items pertaining to family and personal matters are letters
concerning Edison's health; finances; membership in clubs and societies; charitable donations;
and the upkeep of his winter home in Fort Myers, Florida. In addition, there is correspondence
involving Edison's opinion of phrenology; Charles Edison’s entrance into the freshman class at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a visit by a Chinese minister.
Letterbook, LB-082
This letterbook covers the period February-May 1910. Most of the correspondence is by
Edison, Harry F. Miller, and George A. Meister. Many of the letters pertain to laboratory work and
supplies and to Edison's accounts with the Edison Portland Cement Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co.
Also included is correspondence regarding ongoing developments in the fabrication of molds and
patterns for use in the construction of concrete houses; Edison’s search for a supply of bismuth;
and the manufacture of his improved alkaline storage battery. Several letters describe the
expected performance of Edison's battery on railway streetcars. Among the many items pertaining
to family and personal matters is correspondence relating to Edison's health; his membership in
clubs and societies; his charitable donations; and the upkeep of his winter home in Fort Myers,
Florida. In addition, there are letters concerning Edison's opinion on the prohibition of alcohol and
his suggestion for extracting the juice of discarded oranges, lemons, and grapefruits for use as
citric acid, lemon oil, and "fruit sugar."
Letterbook, LB-083
This letterbook covers the period May-August 1910. Most of the correspondence is by
Edison, Harry F. Miller, and George A. Meister. Many of the letters pertain to cement construction
projects; ongoing progress in the development of molds and patterns for Edison’s concrete house;
the manufacture of Edison’s improved alkaline storage battery and its use in automobiles, trucks,
electric railway vehicles, submarines, and yachts; and the production of batteries in Germany.
Among the items relating to personal and family matters are letters regarding Edison’s health and
finances and the upkeep of his winter home at Fort Myers, Florida. Also included is a letter to F.
W. Keitel of the Farmers Land Co. in which Edison discusses his idea to provide irrigation water
to farmers with a series of pumps run by small electric motors.
Letterbook, LB-084
This letterbook covers the period August-December 1910. Most of the correspondence is
by Edison, Harry F. Miller, George A. Meister, and Ademor N. Petit. Many of the letters pertain to
Edison’s accounts with the Edison Portland Cement Co. and J.P. Morgan & Co.; cement
construction projects; and ongoing progress in the manufacture of molds and patterns for use in
the construction of Edison's concrete house. There is also correspondence regarding the
production of Edison’s improved alkaline storage battery and its use in automobiles, trucks, electric
railway vehicles, and submarines. A letter to investor Arthur I. Clymer mentions Edison’s $1.9
million cash payment for stock in the Edison Storage Battery Co. Among the items relating to
personal and family matters are letters involving Edison’s membership in clubs and societies; his
orders from Brentano’s bookstore in New York City; his recollection of a phonograph recording of
Count Leo Tolstoy; and his charitable donations, including his contributions to an anti-cigarette
movement and a Christmas fund for the destitute. Also included are several items concerning
Edison’s opinions on immortality, spiritualism, and organized religion.
Letterbook, LB-085
This letterbook covers the period December 1910-March 1911. Most of the
correspondence is by Edison, Harry F. Miller, and George A. Meister. Many of the letters pertain
to the manufacture of Edison's improved alkaline storage battery and its use in automobiles,
trucks, railway vehicles, and submarines. There is also correspondence regarding difficulties in
production of the storage battery by Sigmund Bergmann in Berlin, Germany; an audit of the
Edison Storage Battery Co.; Edison’s offer to sell the Lansden Co.; and improvements in his
phonograph. Other letters describe ongoing progress in the development of molds and patterns
for use in the construction of concrete houses, including a letter in which Edison expresses his
desire to provide the working man a home "on the easiest kind of terms." Among the items relating
to personal and family matters is correspondence regarding Edison’s attitudes on religion,
immortality, and agnosticism; his opinion on the "greatest inventive problems facing the world";
his remedy for his digestive problems; his membership in clubs and societies; and his charitable
donations, including a contribution to the Library Board of Milan, Ohio.
Letterbook, LB-064
This letterbook covers the periods November 1892-August 1894 and
September 1899-June 1900. The correspondence from the early period is
primarily by William S. Logue, writing on behalf of the Edison Manufacturing
Co., regarding the installation of Edison’s phonoplex system. Most of the letters
from the later period are by Edison and John F. Randolph. They pertain to the
reopening of the iron ore concentration plant at Ogden, New Jersey; the
erection of a plant in the Dunderland region of Norway, in connection with the
Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.; plans for an experimental mill at the Ortiz
gold mine in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the construction of a plant at
Stewartsville, New Jersey, for the manufacture of cement. Also included are
numerous other items relating to Edison's interest in ore milling, mines, and
ores, as well as letters concerning the domestic and foreign phonograph
business; the motion picture business; engines, dynamos, and other supplies
and equipment; legal concerns; Edison's family, health, and finances; and other
personal matters. One item pertains to Edison's early work on the telephone
and the royalties paid him by the Western Union and Bell companies.
The label on the front cover contains the following notation: "Letterbook
of Thomas A. Edison. From Sept 1- 1899 To June 8th 1900- Indexed." There
is a label on the spine with similar information. The book contains 684
numbered pages and an index. Approximately 20 percent of the book has been
selected.
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12, 1899.
Mi'. A. A. Cowles,
'•■A Aoeunia Braes * Copper Co.,
99 John Street, •
New York.
My. tear Cowles:
1 ##$§ f'c- I’xperi mental purposes about 25 lbs. of
pure lave So;’-. ■' ! ' " Copper in sheets; any dimension will do as to
width and and An out l/8 or less in thickness, also 25 lbs.
of Scale oxide from lake Superior copper,
AU Sliest Copper I can buy is full of impurities and
some have of Zinc. It wo ild be a ^ oat favor if you are In a
position to do this, if not, oar, you. refer mo to any one who oftn.
Yours truly,
72
XU'. A. A. cn'vletij
Vice A; is on la Brass ft Otipper Go,,
99 John Street, tW Y*
Dear Mr. Cowleet
In reply to -your faydit the 13th Inst., X pot to
otate that your elect rolytlfcally refipart Wppr, I thlnV will avo¬
wed my purpose. Please send me 25 -Up*, of elootrolyticftliy refined
dopier in *haete, any ditponoion will fl0 R0 t0 wiath an<1 •L<)n'*t'h ana
l/B of an indh ot* lace in thie*ne«d, al«P & lb®* of scale
oxide from your eleotrolytically refined popper. You peed not pro-
pure1 the JifiKa Superior eppppr.
Kindly have hill made out in my name, and thanVint; you
very muoh for your kindneoa, I remain,
Youre truly,
f$iO Cl. CcUXvn
$r
I. H. Decker, Roq. ,
Deckortown, N.
Dear Siri
S«pt. 16,. l&M.
In reply to y our favor of the let inet., I be« tp efcftt e
that I am very eorry I can not offer your .eon-in-law a poeition,
ae my laboratory force at the nronert time is full.
fours truly,
Cl . CUvi
N. P. Kerr, floq.,
Canaan life Ineuranee Cm.
Hciir.il ton Ontario, Osnafla.
Dear Sir:
Sept. 15, 1899.
In reply •
that the I.- eet place
fvor ,R, sx„. ul«., ,
" to the Massachueet
Tochnoli
Institute 0f
S apt. 3.6, 1899.
Wm. Murray , ,
Dickinson, K, l
Dear Sir;
lr reply ». j .-.nr favor t-y 9 th inet.5 I ba*; to afcate
that r think you can obtain the M”.o fr! ta of the diagram f»Qm tfrB
Woatern Union I'c-lacraph 0“, . 19:- , '{roadway , Vow York.
3. H. Hoadley, Seu.« ,
Prea. International Power Co. ,
149 Broadway, Mew York.
Bear Sir;
in reply to your favor of the Iltli ins'
that I a an not "ive you the address of my eon a«
from him in some time.
sept. 15, 1899.
1 I ban; to state
iit"> 3 not hoard
You
re yuly,
Sflifi. (X. S>Uocn^>
Sept. 27, 1895
r of Sept. 26th. I know nothing about
oved from 59th St., Hew York, t.o 20th £
ny trims actions that have taken place
L. Edison.
non should be directed to my attorneys,
,, , 51 Nassau St., New York.
Yours very truly,
4. rt .
R. ft Oth Street,
I hen; to a avia e you that we received notio.e from the
Orange National Bank et.ating that, they held a draft drawn by you
on your father for $40, and as we have received no notioe fro® you
regard to same, and ae we i
• accept drafts, we have returned
Youre truly,
l $ (ftoMi&thJL.
I
i
Oct. 7, 1899.
Ho-ry F, H.yt, flscj. ,
Pr'-S* Gal let so Company,
is William St., Hew York.
Dear Sir:
Your communication of 0ot. 5th received. Our experiments
ure nearly finished, A email model of the Experimental Mill
i beinc; made and will be completed in two weeks. When t am
fiod with it, I Shall bo ready to ahead with the erection
5 Experimental Mill for shipment to Mexico. Some of the
very for use in the mill is already made, and is inolu-
i t -vyenso already incurred.
i >"-n.J tnat all the points necessary to be determined at
oa‘ ' ' * 'r"rv rn’l0j; toller and less expensive
i.li, tna r. at first thought. My men with mill and machinery
-.1 away in !■? v than 90 days, if we pan *ot the material
J. 1 £ 4 Mae on i c 'l' emp 1 e ,
Chicago, ill.
Sirs
I have bean working on your sample of Shore sand, and '
T U Can b9.*0rked- 1 *** ^ savin® of 85 to 90* could
twined. I have worked out a process for working the dry ■
^ “‘C' °rtU Vdno 0rant* Mexico which carries 35 cents
°“bl° yard. mill win be erected next «««««.. Pour
c/steam revels handle the gravel and the amount worked per
b- *<000 tone; The cost of the mill ie $500,000.
i enouid not care to ®o into the thin* without it ig
on a scale. T should like several
pounds more
• ox your carbide I have had contain so large a quantity
f calcium phosphide, that the acetyl ine gas explodes spontaneously
n contact with the air, I supposed a method of purifying it would
e of interest to you, and if I an correct,
ake the matter up with vou.
Wo 1. Raison, Req.,
46 R. 59th Street,
New Yorif,
Dear Sir I
that you did not receive check dated September 22d for $40 and I
therefore ben- to enoloee you herewith a duplicate check of eane
f'or like amount. If the oth er check happens to come to y0ur hand,
'’^urn same to me as I have stopped payment.
Yours truly,
V .
!>■ i\r Sir:
In reply h. your favor of the 50th ult., I be-? to -stats
t.at I only worn 3ry plAcet BUhfle wh*P* there to only onou/rh -rater
for boilers. Handle earns with Bteam ttKJVels, Smallest toila. I
could make will handle 5 or 6000 tons v«r flay. t work on the
royalty b sH. ■ Your a truly.
'■> •' jW 'ilt-Jtllh Raq« t
•u.’e B. C.
Bear Si:-:
in reply vp. fo'v'
tii a x 1 would advise you. 'o
running, then if a success,
orobably bo done.
Oc t. 1?.
favor of the £.7th ult. 1 bet to state
ws.ii, until 1 tet tno flew Mexico Mill
you will. hear of it and oomething' can
Yours truly,
Oct. 13, 1899.
0. IVu Stone, Req,,
Jeffrey, ii.
Dear Siri
tn reply to your flavor of the 18th ult.,.T ben: to state
that the cylinders do hot magnify the sound, they only apparently
do so.
Yours truly,
q
4-
Oct. 13, 1899.
s. ,’ioyea, Ksq. ,
(Cdison Building, 44 Broad Street,
"ew York.
hear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the «th ult. , which has been
mislaid, C be<5 to state that I. have seen Mr. Gilmore, and he says
that as a rule they do not furnish bodies complete of the Concert
phonograph, but in your oaee he would be srlad to nftke an exception,
and furnish the box complete for $95. I return you herewith letter
from Mr. Yourfl ^gafL-y,
'HGV ■
Oct. 13, 1899.
0. C. Kgiff , ;c»q.,
20 Broad Street,
New York,.
Bear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 26th ult., r be^ to state
that T teetea the ore, and aoat all of it will leach allri,ht. The
eulphide hae to be heated.
T can not find the Frue-Vanner Machine.
Youre ^truly,
j'-L n /-v 1
1 ‘-L'-i.LAV-, $?_
„ °ot. 13, 1899.
% Mu Clure, ffeq.,
141 Bast 25th St.,
:’ew York.
i'ear Sir:
In reply to your f.vor of th. eth ul,., I „„ t0
thot I „ not ye. reaoy „ h... .„nhl„8 fmlUha, „„ ^ >t
mentioned.
Youre truly,
JntfiQt. Ijrtuiir.
V- foster, rteq. ,
Texas.
Oot. 13, 1899.
hear sir:
[n r,ply *° r0“r '"O' "f sth mt., , „„„ t0 ,ttM
ttot r ... the fir... to ue, Carbon Tr.„.„u„P, motion Coll
"4 ■»«.«- for telephone parpo...; ... ,h. „nlon ^ ^
Company paid me a royalty for it for 17 yeara.
Yours truly,
Milwaukee i'Qeotrio Co,,
296 Heed fit.,
' Milwaukee, V/is«
Oct. 13, 1899.
'eitlemeni
In reply to your favor of the 26th ult., I ben: to state
that Ivlarkel is one of the pioneers of the Rleetric Lirsht business.
■Alien T knew him, he was a hustler ana allriwht, but I have not seen
him for years.
truly,,
0 (2-Ca/Ljc-t.n
Oct. 13, 1899.
tn reply to your favor of the 20th ult., I beg to state
m abou^ erecting a mill on the Ortiz mine grant, Santa Fe,
t. to handle 'go, 000 tone of uncemented dry placer .ravel per day
' n0t 8611 the D5aehine-' There are many maohinee.
Yours truly,
In reply to your favor of the 18th ult., T bog to state
that the process is for working uncementad dry placer gravel with
fine gold. The mill will be erected on the Ortiz mine grant near
fcanta Fe, N. M. . You better await the results of the mill and than
if successful, we can talk business.
Yours truly.
Oot. 14, 1899.
The Railway ft .Tnrjin serin!* Review,
1305 Ma nhrt t 1, « n Li Id?.,
Chicago, Ill.
'■entlemen:
f.n reply to your favor of the 15th ult„, I her* to state
that there is very little truth in any of pho Yaked interviews. I
\ am ftattin" ready to erect a mill on the Ortiz mine *rant, near
Santa Ye, to work dry placers. The. mill is to handle 20,000 tone
per day. The assay value is about 35 cents: there is no water there,
Youre truly,
St*, a. ciu„.
Benton :ie Millin, K sq.,
Executive Chamber,
Nashville, Tann.
Oct. 14, 1899.
Pear Sir:
In roply to your favor of the 26th ult. , I berj to state
that the process is only for dry placers in arid regions. I return
you herewith clipping ana letter.
Youre truly,
Yourp truly,
%uir (own'll
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Nov. 29th, 1899.
W;i>. It. lurks Man . ,
Ot.h 't. & Montgomery Ave . ,
Philadelphia, Pa.
My near Mark 8-
T-n reply to your favor of the 23rd inat., I beg to Btate
that t a;n in t)ie same condition regarding money as yourself. I do
nor. know where to net it.
Yours truly.
Dr. P.8. Erwin,
Hauch Chunk, Pa.
Dear Sir*
in reply to your favor of the Ihth Inst. I b*« to state that we
.found neither uranium or vaimd iurn .
Yours truly.
a.
Genl. Electric Co.,
Schenectady,
TT.Y.
Oentleraon-
Referring to our letter Of Nov. ISth, in which we requested
you to send Blue prints of one of your old style engines, we beg
to say we have received the prints, and thank you very much for
sending them.
Nonp of these bine prints refer to piping of this engine,
and if not troubling; you too much, we would a3k that you send U8
information as to j>±pe connections, etc.
Yours very truly.
%\T( r
Deo. nth, 1899,
J-V- ,r., Baldwin*
West Orange,
W.
Deur Sir-
The property which you hold under lease from Samuel V. Baldwin,
has been purchased by me. Mr. Baldwin advises me that you have paid
the rent to Dec. 1st, 1699. Please hereafter pay the rent to me.
Your« very truly.
>ok. now rr.i ned^r.o what for, and
he remainder separated so Hi
wn a way, and the ^old and
i.xaot problem to be solved,
thin<t sure I can make, a
Iron and if done on a
it can be done cheaply.
y truly,
262
Dec. 19th, 1899.
Enclosed please find letter to your steel casting concern,
which explains Itself. These eastings are for the hopper or the
Giant RdllB at the iron ore plant, and we are In urgent need of
them, and t will appreciate anything that you will do for me to
hasten delivery, The sooner 1 get these castings, the sooner 1 can
give you briquettes.
With Kindest regards, 1 am
Yours very truly.
Philadelphia, Pa.
I
I
Dec. 21 St , 1899.
Electrical vehicle Co.,
100 Brbatisray,
H bit yortc City.
GehtlAmert-
tfill you kindly Inform }.cr. Hill that the brake on automobile
ia seriously defeat ive, and that his Engineer should come out and
get our experience. Of course, we fix up our trouble and it dont
bother ub, but I can see thut in the hands of laymen there will be
trouble unlees same changes are made.
yours very truly.
27
. i j. Coursolles, Esq.,
p. 0. Box 1066,
Ottawa, dnt. , Can.
Dear Sir :
I am in receipt of your very ftill and complete letter of
Dec, 14th, having reference to the matter of the condition of various
talking machine patents, including those issued to myself. Some of my
associates and myself contemplate erecting a factory at Hamilton, or
other suitable manufacturing town in Canada, for the purpose of manu¬
facturing phonographs, but from the reading of your letter it would
appear that there is a doubt as to whether the various Canadian patents
that have been issued to ms oou}d be utilized exclusively or not, and
naturally your communication is, to say the least, embarrassing, if
the tacts are as you indicate, which from the legal advice that I have
h.;a is t i my mind doubtful. In view of the fact of the contemplated
Manufacture mare, I am loth to sell the patents that you mention in your
in, ami , furthermore, I contemplate taking out some additional
) the phonograph in Canada very shortly, covering improvements,
:h Will enhance its value ve-y materially. However, before
further in the matter, I should like to hear further from you
,t.joct, and should be glad if you will write me at your earliest
Yours
Jan. 10th, 1900.
Ji. Beazley, Rsq.,
S^o. liaison Ore Mil.Um; Syndicate lirr.itecl,
189 Fleet Street,
London, A, C.
Dear Sir*.
We have now wot a wood separator, and the cost o'f<
■QBSaafk. -for capacity of 2500 tone in 20 hours is within commercial
limits. I have mads a rou^ij calculation as to cost of a plant to
work P.500 tons and producing 1000 tons briquettes ne^ dail^ with
everything in nlace, with steam shovel, Drills, but without Raii.ro
tracks, at $950, 000.
We can deliver F. 0. B. vessels, «7 to 67 l/e unit Bri¬
quettes under §2 dollars per ton, such an ore is worth I think
7 1/2 to 8 cents ner unit at Hamburg, (its worth 11 cents here):
supposing freight to be $1.50 leaves $1.86 net, or $558,000 yearly
net profit.
As far as t can see, Mill of 10,000 tone Capacity daily
would not exhaust the denosit in a Gentury. My only' trouble now it
to keep the phosphorous down to the Bessemer limit. I hope soon
to »et over this. It would never do to heat several thousand tons
It. H. B. #J,
oi Orucio “f'5 to effect separation* This would cost say 25 cents
per ton, or $«QQ per clay for 2500 tons daily or $180,000 a year
and the olant for doing it would cost a9 much as n-.y separator?,
wt-.ich do not cost to run over $5000. yearly.
You say that you are 'toinp to license the New Castle
parties; Well dont part with if on too easy terms', or -rive all
Norway and Sweeden with it. This Dunderland prooerty can oe made
to pay interest on fifty million Dollars if done on a larks’ scale.
Yours very truly,
Edison Os M’ ; 1 1 >vit Synd-cu ,, "La.#
Jan. 17, 1900.
In Ke Drakensuurg Iron. Of course ** oouJ a work these
.3, bat -.vl,* r*» is ’A ,<s market for ti m ore. The ••■•a is no local
and I do not know if the re is any coking coal; and even if
:e both, is there enough market! Th* Haul to England wo uld
eibitory. As for crushing Diamond Matrix, of course we could
crush 10,000 tons daily down to say, 1/2 or l/4 inch size,
ujlci more be no danger of breaking the diamonds-; our system
howiver, reduce the breakage to a minimum if the rock is a
.«, especially if it is -conglomeratic, or one part is softs!-
lie other*
Will you. please make intjuiries regarding; large deposits
gi ,-uit ore containing antimony in Portugal.
T pnoled you Saturday about success of plan for separating
and. I art surprised that I got the phosphorous so low, the
Iron
0.018 phosphor on
I want
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January 24,1900.
Piles Tool Works Co..
136 Liberty St . ,
New York City.
Dear Sirs: —
We bey to enclose order covering the tools purchased of you
yesterday by our Mr. Mallory. Price for atone to be Six thousand, six
hundred and sixty dollars , {*6 ,600.00) P.0.3, factories- terms onethird
cash, balance equally in sixty and ninety days.
Please send in all necessary information as to speed, size
pulleys- width belts- diameter driven pulleys on machines, foundation
pl.no andbolts ,welgbt ,&0'. .» we my be ell reedy for tee mebine.
ee soon as.reqelvsd. ®= depend upon yon to mice tbe deliveries pro.-
ised.
Your:
349
January 24,1900
Prentiss Tool & Supply Co.,
115 Liberty St.,
Nevf York City.
Lear Sirs: —
We beg to oonfirm order for one 26x14 Fifleld Engine lathe,
and one Q & C hack Saw given you by Mr. Mallory yesterday at §745-
f.o.b. car New York- both machines to be shipped from stock at once.
Please send us necessary information as to width of belts-speed-
foundation plan and bolts ,&c. &c., so we may be ready for machine as
soon as received.
Yours very truly,
- of Norway, also a cal
are the Custom Ho '2 so charts on
a-'-es at, thy sea portVor compulsory
ut entrance of the oayV'
alt taxes does the proprietor of the
.'..’.out taxecv Will Sn^lish I.nsur-
wy at lsolat ed oolnte li>o the
the timber line exte.ndV is there
sit, all summery.
that Hematite is preferable to
ov nhosphoruus attainable in
is fact areatly increases value of
e.ry little trouble in petting
t of Ma-'rietiteV
last report sent anci will a 6k some
o emimate of removin'* one yard
- nf t. serious.
ivj'.lv more and even at American
. b removed and the crude ton of
P.d cents ter ton of ore.
very truly,
London England.
My Dear la w re nee:
I lave read over the report on the Dunderland. While
th6 maps nade by Swsodish parties and those last sent do not agree
very well, I have a somewhat clear idea of the situation.
I think that we should pot attempt to utilise the water
power at first, on account of amount of fixed capital required, but
erect the first mill as near the mine and a dumping ground as will
t,*u noesible. The typographic survey if correct, shows that this
can be done.
\
' That wo should build a Standard American gua^e railway,
i roiii the nay of Rene.n to the mine, manned by strong Amerioan
locomotives and Amerioan self dumping ors cars.
That, we should put the Briquetting plant at the Bay
n-jxv to the shipping Docks, for tho reason that the fine concentrate
can be landled with lardly any expenses. A train with 500 tons can
be loaded in one hour at the mill, and unloaded in a few minute® at
u?,000. II. la (So -is no t include the flock. I cant estimate this.
'i'i.is mill and briquetting plant being all steel, will not
rn km "/a need carry no insurance or fear for our investment.
1 “ - iiii’.s te that Z, 000 horse power will be required and
! ■:. amnia. Ifi.it will require 40 tons of coal daily. The
eulea will have mo return ca rgo and will bring the coal back •
•v.ply. luj will sis;. t..ii the eo.-l is not a serious item at
.fiO Per ton. ' it would amount- to $4£,0Q0 yearly. Water power can
me later, peri. toe fur the sec'-nd mill.
How the iu.nortant question is nscxatefl in the report,
v many tons of crude ore vtll it take to make a ton of co.ncen-
atev I can state that exactly now as regards that part of the
a which is meetly Hemiiite. If the assay in the report is
greet, tnen two and two tenths ton
3P.5 in pj.oHPhoreus.
» ii7/S concentrate below
You wi 1.! lava to wait, a
,o ore containing ■ la rg*» q"cr.'.i
r. u J e • to secure t::is property.
: u t a ' a 1 .1 v as I believe ec.t half
,ur; »).- investment in Aflciit ion
1 working right along and will
. few days before I can report bn
.ty of magnetite. I hope you will
I consider it of -enormous value,
of it has been discovered. This
,uif million dollars per year, and
•. in twenty years. The other mills
it in the Railroad. I l.a ye several
write y0u further as we. get
■suit e.
Jan. 31st ,1900.
Mr . J . B . McDonald ,
Jerome Park Reservoir,
Williamsburg ,N. Y.
Dear Sir s-- .
¥a shipped to-day via freight at r.iue.t of ». ¥.1.
Sander, a re-heater which he ha. arranged to hay. te.ted on yonr air
lines .
A. soon a. the re-heater 1. received, plea., advle. u. and..
will send our man to Bet it up.
Yours very truly,
Vlahaffey & Morrisi
Harteville, tnc(.
In reply to your favor of the 10th ult. , I be>t to stai
wood is not a uonductor of elsotrioity.
Yours truly,
fob. 3, 1900.
fclsx9, Rsq.,
SO Nassau Street,
Nov YorK.
ir*.
Ir. reply to your favor of ti.e 19th ult., I bev; to a tat'
do not thinV that t shall exlpit at t*ie Paris te-:
ter afore can not crive any catalogue of any details.
Yours truly,
f§U!).Q..fyvLm
Poll, 5th, 1900.
Tho Standard Tool Co.,
Cleveland, Ohi o .
Gentlemen: —
We send you by this mail a small ring easting, the in¬
side of which we Sish to finish in an automatic maohine to 1 l/2"
diameter with variation not to exceed l/2 of l/lOOO part of an inch,
at a rate of perhaps 100 to 150 per hour. The surface of the ring
upon which cut is to start is previously faced as shown. Can you
fund oh a tool that will perform such work at a single operation?
We prefer to use a shell tool of some kind, something after the style
the groove chucking reamer #124 h. bf your catalogue, made to
fit on an arbor like a shell reamer, might do the work.
JCimlly give us your advise ort the subject at your earliest
convenience , and oblige,
Yours very 'truly,
March 3, 1900,
etaU
March 3," 1900.
Company,
844 Washington Str
state that Mr. /'idison has
South and is not
expected back for three weeks.
Yours truly,
toAidottlJj
inet. addressed to
f. Edieon is in
Florida
497
March 29th, 1900.
Mr. J. w. Hill,
c/o Electric Vehiole Co.,
100 Broadway,
New York City,
Bear Mr. -Hill: —
Youro of the 20th inst. to Mr. Edison has been
awaiting his return from the South, where he has been for the last
month. The Automobile has not been insured, but we will have in¬
surance placed on it at once, unless you prefer to do it, in which
case please send us a bill for the premium.
Mr. Edison and the writer would both be glad to see you when¬
ever you find it convenient to call on its here.
Yours very truly,
498
r .X .ill
o\o
■ ill vaad
gnlilawa
.dinom
aona-wa
alq 9aao
. iM
COH V9V9
March 29th., 1900.
Dear Mr. Xawrence:--
Your favor of the 16th inat. just received,
and In reply, I have qahled you:-
•MM.. JSurnup; ... Bdl.on at Moratory, will try s.t Barn.."
Whioh now beg to confirm.
Mr. Mlin returned front Florida ln»t Saturday night and ha.
W wonderfully Ir.proy.d by hi. T«»tlo». S. do., not r«.«b.r
Mr. Furman, but .ay do .. mb.n 1» .... hl». Mr. Mdl.on, of oour..,
meat Ins .= many p.ople, could ..ally fors.t a »»■
Mr. Burn. 1. at pr...nt In »<n> »e*ico and X bar. wrltt.n bfc»
fully to-dw a. to your wl.h.., a.blno him to t.l.sraph » *».th.r
b. M orranc. to go wltb Her.. Furman and Bumup. »d X undoubted¬
ly will bay. tbl. Information , al.o •» to tb. -»«nt of hi. f,
whfln they dull on ». boro. » bay. no doubt but .bat w. can «—
that Mr. Burn, will -ah. tb. instigation » r.4u.,t.d.
499
March 29th, 1900.
Your cable — "Kindly cable whether Ogden Mill
running. If not, when definitely expected. Also if Zinc Mill
success. Mail full particulars; important." — just received, and we
have replied--"Zlnc Mill been running satisfactorily several weeks
section not ready. Ogden
dll start middle April.
The Kill at Ogden is fully 98/i ready for work. We
held up waiting for some castings, which we are having made in
several places, and have received over half of them, and to receive
the balance in the next wee k or ten days. So unless something very
unexpected happens, we will be in operation by the middle of April.
Everything is in first class shape , and we should make a find record
The Zinc Mill haB been running steadily since about early in
January; not running, however, their Dryer or 3 High RoIIb, they
also having been delayed in the receipt of castings, whioh are very
hard to get promptly at present . The Zinc people say that they are
very' much pleased with the working of the machinery, and as we. have
been unable to get enough ore to the Mill to in any way test our
machinery, this , however , due to the laok of sufficient Mining facili¬
ties, v/hich they are at present Increasing.
500
March 29th, 1900.
Mr. Lawrence #2.
IVe hope to he In a position to cable you within the' next thirty
flays that everything is running very satisfactorily at the Ogden
plant .
Mr. Edison joins me in extending kindest regards to you.
Yours very truly,
UTanldoam
irfw , Bell
Mr. Joseph Lawrence,
188 Fleet Street,
anaaeM
:S ised
tJt darii
araoo od
oldaeup
March 29th, 1900
Messrs. McDonald & Underdunk,
Jerome Park, Reservoir,
7/illiaisis'brldge ,1T.Y.
Soar Sirs:--
TOion the re -heater was set up at your place, our Mr.
Dickerson purchased a lot of pipe, valves, etc. which he used to make
a by-pass around the re-heater when it was in its first position.
We are about to set up the re-heater again and desire these connect¬
ions, and would be obliged if you would send them to us via freight
at the earliest possible moment.
herewith hand you a copy of the bill covering material.
Yours very truly,
March. 31st, 19 00.
:e<L .iM.
tB meet
0V. t&dt
. esaaid
lerfions '
tobio yfl
:T
Col/ John H. Wood,
169 Broadway,
Hew York City.
Dear Sir: —
Will you Mindly get out a policy of insurance on my Au¬
tomobile; said policy to he taken out in the name of the Electric
Vehicle Company, amount of insurance §3,000. She Automobile is at
my carriage house about two thirds of the time and the balanoe of the
time , here at the Laboratory in a little building I have for it.
Kindly have thiB policy written and sent out at your earliest
convenience.
Yours very truly,
April
friend
;ome of ir.y men and they are
talkin'
i.eme of royalty.
le argument of lessoned expenses due
that we already have the organization for other
concern,
purposes, and it eoato nothing to
landize and manufacture the
Kinetoscope
over dead
3rd* That they do
do anything to delay the
have
decision in re patent. They
decided one way or the other-
-8o they know
they stand.
‘lth, They call my attention to relatione with
over the world, which would be disturbed by <?ivin/5 over the bu'ein-
My principal man has
off for two weeks vacation and
think you better
brief,
event of
nngement, you will
some
disadvantage. I do
royalty basis
worked
;tract:
Yours ,
MM&.
April 10, 1900.
In reoly to Mr. Baous statement that T agrees that
actual cash had received 2Q£, that the. division should
liaison and 2/3 to Roderbush and others. I would say
he is quite m.ietaven, and has entirely misunderstood me. In
conversation, we had, I told him that the above
I made for th6 Ortiz Mine
people in New Mexico, but that in
;e Cooln-ardie scheme, I- had to consult
and as I wanted
things belontincr to the London Syndicate, I couJLd
any tenr.s until I saw you, and you had arranged with the
md on Syndicate to
ri/^hte. Mr. Roderbush will 'remember this
jonversation, My impression is that after
cash or founders
•eceived 20/, the balance of
naid
will arrange
which
London Syndicate
Roderoueh and
division-
April 11, 1900.
very doubtful of the
'vires going over the
marlin
tighten olampi
LI only weigh half of present one,
sure, laet more than one year. As
Din ing
at-or slower;
work.
the extra load
3 speed, does not increase the total load very mu<ii
J very much greater wei-rht of the elevator than any
in the buckets due to ore. If you desire to
a.nu need a pulley, decide on <about the speed, and
to mine and Mr. Her ter will try and Tind you a
** loan you unt11 >'<>“ things all right again,
-an not spare you one of our men, as we are
but f can a ccura you
olevator fran-.o ort, out ^ 1>W
on M ,r,»r.i'ra» pat w
” U ’U1 ri(!Slne to do. U. /
Vour-s. x—>|. . - •
April 17th, 1900
fitting out Lehman with materials and full in-
it ions for the prospecting of Bunder land ,
enormous
proposition. I want to give you a note of warning. The Company
over there has very little money left--It will require about §20,000
to make the survey and pay Biamond drilling, and this will exhaust
the money on hand. With the survey, I understand that our Company
will form another Company, and the new Company will furnish the
money for Mills R.R. and take over the property, from London Syndi¬
cate, paying the London Syndicate in shares and cash. I suppose
London Syndicate will get enough shares for the property, and rights
to give the London Syndicate control.
I also suppose that the oash money will get__preference- shareB
and London Syndicate get Common, and all this can he brought about
before the §5,000 monthly payments will fall due in July next. If ■
this in correct , the London Syndicate will not need more than 10
or §-16,000 more money, If this is so, I am willing, tp loan my pro¬
portion to the Company rather than increase or tough the present
capitalization. If they lire 'going to increase the capital to
raise more money, it will diminish the peroentage of our holdings,
and I object to this. I am doing a lot of -work, and am seeding over
’our young men
■ itucle for Chemistry. High type boys
as experimenters, commencing at $10.00
work 'i.e aatiafac-
ii8 amount if
Yours truly,
itlal Buil clin
Your favor
rdin'
K>n;raph Company came duly to hand,
S tar. e of Now Jersey
forgotten
April 2-
Syndicate, ltd.
London, Rn^land.
Craeluis
:eived following
solid
double
without
ely unintelligible. Mo person from the wordin'
double price of core hole
•ely if solid bit
April 25th. ,1900
' You need not out any holes, as we cannot exactly
sfine their position except by experiment. The holes are only
v o inches in diameter and we can cut them when boiler is erected.
list of materials to order, also foundation plans,
small bb will do for Firemen
boiler
chimney of small height will
i we can go ahead with foundation . .
shlng plant , larger and better than I
Aiding
do much better
ilimax
si convince
iltles better,
lands'
sther
April
is enthusiastic over <reolo'?y and
iroepsctin", for me this Summer ii
i one* I will. pay him liberally.
Vouro very trul£.
Columbia College,
iter bam Ave,
: t r oe t ,
hand,
should
May 2, 1900,
o£fer you.
Your 8 truly,
...‘ -•a.;;, ;
Kay 7th, 1900,
ist Company,
•d Building,
Philadelphia , Pa ,
send me proxy covering the trust stooh deposited
have it at the annual meeting of the K41son
iland Cement Company on Monday next, '
Please have proxy made to the order of Walter S. Mallory,
Yours very trul;
mellUV
May 9, 1900.
4*, A, I‘‘r iederisttfin, Esq. ,
203 E. 114th St.,
YorE,
£ti\» Sir:
in reply to your .favor of the 8th inat., I beg to state that I
y.now j o-l <n$ of -the International Bureau of Science & Invention. I con¬
sider tnc- v.hoic Thin# absurd.
Yours truly,
May 9, 1900.
A, <1, Schaefer. Esq.,
Cincinnati., Ohio.
■r,. rop3.y your favor of the 4th inst. , I beg to state that
. . . T. .,,, •'Tver; tint) for the relief of deaf persons.
Yours truly,
May 10, 1900.
. 'iessro. Ab.lo & Willing Mfg. Co.,
2290 irfih Street,
Philadelphia , Pa.
Beer Sira:
In reply to your favor of the 4th inst., I "beg to state that I
i-m. after u flexible metallic tube for carrying ore compressed to 100 lbs.
per square inch, and heated to 500 degrees Pair.
Yours truly,
May 10, 1900.
~&\m> Theresa K. Pepper,
c/o Western Union Telegraph Co.,
Salem, Mass.
Madam :
In reply to your favor of the Sth inst., I would advise you to
'.rv and sell the patent to some large electric light company like the Gen¬
eral Electric Co., of Schenectady, N. Y.
Yours truly,
.w bi.ewoH
Your father this morning received a oircular headed Internation¬
al Bureau of Science & Invention, Thomas A. Edison Jr. Consulting Expert.
He requested me to write you and state that unless you got out of this
thlvq:;, that he would discontinue . sending the checks.
besb anieoloxis
May 11, 1900.
ear Diclcs
1 herewith, hand you a report on cement proposition, as
my cable of yesterday. If there is. any other information you
re for the .Syndicate, I will he very glad to send it to you.
Yours very truly,
lied in the
manner
my handling the husinesi
j net profits of this
starting of your Company
.. that is, with partiou
Letterbook, LB-065
This letterbook covers the period June 1900-April 1901. Most of the
correspondence is by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters by
Cloyd M. Chapman, Walter S. Mallory, and others. The letters relate to the
shutdown of Edison's iron ore concentration plant at Ogden, New Jersey; the
planning and construction of his cement plant at Stewartsville, New Jersey; gold
mining and ore concentration operations at the Ortiz mine in Santa Fe, New
Mexico; and the erection of an iron ore concentration plant in the Dunderland
region of Norway, in connection with the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd. Also
included are other items pertaining to Edison's interest in ore milling, mines, and
ores, as well as letters regarding the domestic and foreign phonograph business,
Edison's plans for his storage battery, orders for equipment and supplies, and
family and other personal matters.
The label on the front cover contains the following notation: "Letter Book
ofThomasA. Edison Personal. From June8-1900ToApr11 -1901. Indexed."
The book contains 500 numbered pages and an index. Approximately 20 percent
of the book has been selected.
June 15, 1900
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John V. Miller, Esq.,
Dolores, New Mexico. •
Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 2nd inst. came duly to hand, and in
reply I beg to state that the tin forms have been found and shipped
to the Newark Sheet Metal Ware Co. on June 7th, and they were
instructed to send you a credit memorandum for same .
The Agent of the Erie R; R. Co. at Washington street
claims that he has a bill against the Galisteo Company for $79.20,
for shipment of goods which you and Mr. Chapman forwarded to New Mex¬
ico. I understand this is a prepayment on freight to a place called
Streeter. Can you not take this matter up with your Company, so
as to have this account settled, as the Railroad Company holds the
agent responsible and he had no right to ship the goods prepaid
without receiving the money.
Kindly give this your attention,
i the laboratory and the Phonograph Works in
as the man is bothering
regard to it.
Yours truly,
June 19, 1900.
L* B. Foley, Esq., Pres.,
Telegraph Superintendents' Assooiation,
Dear Sir:
Detroit, Mich.
Your very kind invitation of June 11th, to attend the meeting
of the Telegraph Superintendents' Assooiation at Petoit on June 20th,
came in whilst 1 was away, hence the dei^T i„ answering it. I am very
s-ry to say, however, that I find it is absolutely impossible for me
to go away at this time, inasmuch as my various business interests
require my personal attention. I cannot refrain at this time, however,
from expressing my regret at being unable to be with you, as the very ’
Pleasant time that I had with your Association last year has not been
forgotten, and I should have very much liked to have renewed the
acquaintances formed at that time.
Trusting that the meeting will be well attended and that the
subjects discussed will be of mutual advantage and benefit to the
members, and wishing your Association every success, believe me,
Yours very truly,
July 2, 1900.
C. A.. Spoffard, Esq,.,
34 Broad Street,
Hew York.
Dear Mr. . Spoffard:
Your favor of the 27th ult. came duly to hand, and in
reply I teg to enclose you herewith the paper executed as per
your letter also my check for $3000.00, the same Being in payment
for interest on note for $50,000 from July 1, 1899 to July 1,1900.
I am very glad to hear that Mr. Villard is improving
and I trust that Before long he will Be entirely recovered. Thanking
you very much for renewing the note, I remain,
Yours very truly,
■TflLr C..
July 2, 1900.
Messrs. Miller & Chapman,
Dolores, New Mexico.
Dear Sirs:
Never mind the Weir at Galisteo River hut make approximate
measurements this Summer. How about the other little Btreams
around the vicinity of Mesa.
Yours truly,
July 5, 1900.
Col. V. E. Stolhrand, Esq.,
Supt. Mount Beacon Military Academy,
Eishkill-on-HudBon, New York.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 29th ult., I beg to state
that I have so many enterprises under way at the present time,, that
I do not see my way clear to let you have the amount on your note.
Yours truly,
Thos. Barnes, Esq.,
July 5, 1900.
Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 29th ult., I Beg to state
that I do not manufacture any apparatus for sale.
Yours truly,
Win. D. Wright, Esq.,
615 Ernest & Cranmer Building,
Denver, Colo.
Eriend Wright:
1 fass-i s^var,*
2? f making some money, as there are undoubtedly other
W sfemn 22®, ^rid refions the process can be worked^ Ycmr
boy seems to be a good one, he has the ear of an Engineer.
Yours truly,
Dear Sir:
Louis Dreyfus, Esq..,
73 ICaiserstrasse
Erankfurt a. K. Germany.
In reply to your favor of the 20th ult., I Deg to state
that I did not say that I would buy the patent, but said I had use
for it and believe I can use a large quantity. The proper parties
to handle it would be the Ingersoll Sergeant-Drill Co. of Hew fork.
Yours truly,
July 6, 1900
U. S. Carbon Co. ,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Dear Sirs:
In reply to your favor of the 30th ult. , I beg to state
that I will have a machine v/orking at my Laboratory in about six
weeks whioh will produce finer material than bolting doth, and very
cheaply.
On account of fine charaoter of your material, I do not
think a magnetic separator can be made that will take iron out.
Yours truly,
July 19, 1900.
Mr. I. Hall Jr.,
Sec. Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.,
7 Amberley House, Norfolk Street,
London, W. C. England.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 6th vat., I Leg to state
that the patent you speak of was a cement patent, and doeB not come
under the terms of the original contract. All patents coming under
the contract will he communicated direct to the Syndicate as has
heen the case heretofore, those relating to Cement Improvements,
which owing to their character may not come under the contract I
will take out direct.
You will he glad to know that the Mills at Edison, N.J.
are running regularly except the Bricking plant. Owing to the
recent panic in Iron, the furnaces were overloaded with ore when
we started up, so we will not ship briquettes until their surplus
ore has heen worked down to permit of their receiving briquettes.
We are turning out about 300 tons of Concentrate daily and stocking
it .
As to the costs of concentrating, we are keeping accounts
and hope to give you the results in a couple of months. We are not
losing any money even with our 17 per cent crude ore, hut how much
we are making is sin unknown quantity. The Zinc Mill continues to run
co
July 19, 1900
New York.
Dear Sirs:
Your favor of the 13th inst. came duly to hand, and I
"beg to return you herewith the same and would like to have you let
me know what meter these taxes are on. Kindly return the letter
with your reply and greatly oblige.
Yours truly.
H. E. Dick, Esq.,
154 Lake Street,
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sir:
Hr. Edison wishes me to forward you letter and proposed
contract from Frank 1. RoudebuSh. Hr. Edison says it will be a very
cold day when he signs a contract like this. After you have looked
it over will you kindly return same, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
'
July 19, 1900
W. E. Saunders, Esq.,
Manager U. S. Carbon Co.,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 9th inst., I beg to state
that magnetic separators do not work well with fine float material
in the product. I will, let you know when the new screening devices
are in operation at my Laboratory.
Yours truly.
July 19, 1900
Mr. Thos. Carmody,
Springfield, Vermont.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 10th inst., I beg to state
that I can not see how electricity can be made to do vftiat you ask.
Yours truly,
Martin Schwerin, Esq.
Mareniseo, Mich.
Dear Sir:
Aug. 1, 1900
I heg to enclose you herewith check to balance your
accounts which have been received at this office; I also enclose
you herewith $50 to be accounted for. On receipt of this letter
discontinue work there at present, and report to me here at Orange,
N. J., as X would like to talk the situation over with you.
Yours truly,
Aug. 1, 1900
Franklin Couch, Esq.,
Peekskill, XT. J.
Scar Sir:
Your favor enclosing tax bill against the E. Y. Concen¬
trating Forks came duly to hand, for which accept my thanks. Mr.
Mallory appears to be under the impression that we can let these
taxes stand and run no risk in regard to the property being sold.
Will you kindly let me know if this is correct, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
Aug. 1, 1900.
John V. Miller, Esq.,
Dolores, Dew Mexico.
Dear Sir:
a letter thi-? d?y received, from the agent of the Erie R. R.
freicht qhwff +S ^bou,t t?e amount due from the Galisteo Co. on
the ^feXic°- Cal1 not something he done so that
out Of^is7om1in«v^+thir 5“0unt» as the agent will have to pay it
times about 1 have also written to Mr. Bloodgood several
Can not some^T^^:o ?0raiory^i;Lls which still remain unpaid.
? done t0 stir these people up, as I dislike
to^ollecttthi« Mr. Edison and tell him that Ihave been unable
to i aa 1 d0 not know how Mr. Edison would
appreciated1^^1113 y°U CSn d° in this matter will be very much
Yours truly,
A. W. Harrison, Esq. ,
15 Toronto Street,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 21st ult. came duly to hand, and in
reply I would like very much to have you send me a sample of the
ore by mail. Be sure and mark it so 1 can tell where it comes from.
Yours truly.
S. H. Kroith, Esn. ,
The Croobyside, CroBbyaide,
Caldwell, New York.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly let me know if at the time Thos. A. Edisc
Jr. left your place, if he took with him his trunk or is it still
at your place, also kindly let me know if he owes you any money
and if so kindly send me a copy of the bill, and I will get at the
young man and try and make him pay, as there is no' reason why he
should’ nt hare paid it before.
Kindly let me hear from you as soon as possible, and
greatly obligf
Sept. 11,1900.
W. S. Mallory, Esq.,
Edison, Sussex County,
New Jersey.
Dear Mr. Mallory: •
I Deg to advise you that I "have received a telephone mes¬
sage for you from Col. Reiff, asking you to send him a new note for
$10,000, dated July 10th 1900 for six months with interest, drawn
to the order off. T. Alexander; and I beg to state that I have
this day sent him in your name a renewal note for W. T. Alexander
for the above amount, also a call for 120 shares of New Jersey &
Pa. Concentrating Works Stock and asked him to return the old note
for like amount, which fell due July 10th, 1900.
Trusting that this meets with your approval, I remain,
Yours very truly,
(Confidential)
Sept. 14, 1900,
Hubert F. Jackson, Esq.,
97 Gresham Street,
J, on dor- , E. C., England.
In reply to your favor of the 29tli ult . , I "beg to state
that I have had no business relations with Col Gourand for a
number of years. He does not act for me in any manner. Without
looking up the papers, I think I am the owner of about two fifths
of the stock standing in Gourand' s name. I would like to Bell my
interest and the contract, which might be of value to the Company
in certain events.
Yours.
129-
Sept. 18,1900.
■'i-f & Amend, .
211 Third Ave.,
Hew York City.
Hear Sirs:
We wish to reply to your favor of Sept. 13th, wherein you
quote us price of Metallic Cadmium in 2 lb. lots, $1.30, and in
251b. lots $1.20 per pound.
In the course of Mr. Edison's experiments from now on,
he will use Cadmium in large quantities ordering it, when and in
amounts desired, and as in our letter of Sept. 11th, he v/ished
your best commercial price on the Cadmium to be ordered from time
to time.
He also wished us to inform you that he has formerly,
and is still: able to purchase it in one and two pound lots at a
much better figure than you quote us on 25 lb. lots.
Will you kindly look into this and let us know if there
is nr.: j-e error in your figures. An early reply will oblige,
Yours truly,
Sept. 19, 1900.
Earl B. Reed, Esq.,
Hubbardsville , New York.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 15th inst., I beg to Btate
that the people around your town were very sensible when they would
not believe when you told them that I put up an electric star, for
I never put up an electric star in all my life and never knew of
one being put up. The articles written in the Newspapers about this
star is all a fake.
Yours truly,
Messrs. Freund Bros & Co.,
478 Third Ave., _
Hew York.
Bear Sirs:
Sept. 27,1900.
In reply to your favor of the 22nd inat., I beg to Btate
that at present I do not know the address of Mr. Thos. A. Edison Jr.
but if I hear from him I will let you know at' the earliest possible
moment.
Yours truly,
Sept. 27, 1900.
0. L. Sadler, Esq.,
Akron, Ohio.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 21st inst., I beg to state
that th
will be
trouble about Boarding House.
Yours truly ,
l^l
Sept. 27, 1900.
Thomas A. Edison Jr.,
Hotel Roland, 59th Street,
New York.
Dear Tom:
I heg to advise you that your father has_ found out that
you had a check cashed hy Messrs. Ereund Bros. & Co., drawn to the
order of the hearer and signed hy you for $10. The check was sent
through the hank for collection and came hack marked no funds.
Vftien you get your check from me on Saturday go and pay
this check and send it out to me so I can show it to your father,
for I have instructions' not to send you any more money until it
is paid, and your father told me that if this happens again to
stop sending you any more money, so that if you do this again and
your check does not come there will he no reason for you to write
me asking why I do not send your check, as you will know the reason.
Yours truly,
Oct. 2, 1900.
Messrs. Miller & Chapman,
Dolores.
Mew Mexico.
Dear Sirs:
I can not understand why the shafts were located so
close together. If the prospecting was to "be carried on with shafts
as shown, it would require five years and a fortune besides. I
think if I remember right I spoke of the proper plan in my letter .
of instructions. If Mr. Burns put these shafts down, he has made
the same mistake as was made at Stewart eville .
The proper method it to locate a 3haft in each square
at such a limit to the area as may be determined upon; then go
out to the outer Limit and sample four shafts north, Sout, East
and West; then skip a square all around and sink four more squares, .
and so on, thus with a few shafts you will have determined roughly
the area of good gravel. Thus (See sketch attached. J
What is the next shaft you are working on. Please keep
me informed each week of progress, and if new shaft is running
richer or poorer. Mr. Hoyt comes out quite often and 1 can give
him no newB which is embarassing. I spoke to him about an asBayer
and tried to get one here but did'nt succeed. He says you can get
one locally to help you out. I do not see the need of bo many
assays,
What is the matter with assaying the panning Concentrate
from tailings, that will give loss in tails; then devide all the
Concentrate in four sizes and assays. This gives five assays to
a hole. All we want to know is the size of the gold. Everything
below fifty thousandths being in one assay and the balance in tW^
other lots; When we have got a dozen holes and made a general
prospect of the property, and know that the gravel is rich enough
to work, whioh is the only doubtful point just now, we can make
further assays at leisure as you oan save the whole of the Concen¬
trates separately as to sizes for future assays. The three assays
assays being made by taking a proportionate amount. by weight from
each size. This will permit you to go ahead rapidly and not require
the hiring of another assayer. Remember that what 1b important now
is to know the area of good gravel and its richness, and secondly
the approximate sizes of the gold. The last can be done in the
future. The first should be done now and done quickly.
X wish to say this that you are both to agree where you
want the holes and request Mr. Burns to sink them as you want them
and in the manner you want them. Mr. Burns is not to decide the
location, but yourselves, of course you are to ask hiB advice and
if good act on it, but if you do not think it good dont act on it
but follow your own judgement.
I "beg to enclose you herewith my four months note for
§2000 dated Oct. 11th , 1900, also my check for §40, being four
months interest on the above note. The same is to replace my
note for §2000 which falls due on the l§th . I expected at
this time to reduce this note, but as I have been compelled to
close down the largest part of my plant at Edison, IT. J . on account
of not being able to get orders, I would much prefer to renew the
full amount.
'.Yill you kindly return the old note, and thanking you
very much for your kindness, I remain,
Yours truly,
Oct. 15, 1900.
S. Bergnan, Esq. ,
c/o General Incandescent Arc Light Co.,
578 First Are.,
New York.
My Dear Bergman:
Your favor of the 13th in3t. came duly to hand, and in
reply I Peg to state that I will sell my place at Fort Myers, Fla.
for §12,000 cash. This price includes everything except machinery
in ' laboratory.
Thanking you for calling my attention to same, I remain,
Yours truly.
Oct. la, 1000.
Edwin Reynolds, Esq.
2nd Vice President She Edw. P. Allis Co.,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Dear Sir:
Yours of Oct. 1st received. I thank you very much for
looking into the matter of the Engines it has taken a load off my
mind. I do not wonder that you are overwhelmed with orders.
'faking everything into consideration, I selected yours as the most
practical and commercial Engine built and I hope to use a great
many of them. What I should like to see in this Country is a large
v«. .ks devoted exclusively to the building of Standardized Engines
f i jin 100 to 10,000 Horse Power, made in quantities and kept in
stock. Anybody that wanted special changes or something different
could buy of sor> other maker.
I think the future of power will be large Engines and
+’as distribution bv E’ not o Motors. You and I ought to be about
30 years of age,.
Yours,
a. fijeoen /
October 2-ith,lSUc
Chester Ti. Baird ,Esa . ,
Bullitt Building,
Bear Sirj-
X herewith send you by Mr. Mallory, your note of July 30tl
“ day3’ S10,°00; alS° °ne S^^er 3th , due November 10th, for
’ making - total of §17,000, for which you gave Mr. Mallory new
-tee of 57,000., §5,000., §3,000. and §2,0oo. as per receipt of
October 23rd.
I have also forwarded to-day to Ji. o. Hiller * Co»p„y,
r°r "0t°“ ,:“M 4"S“t »•* ror *.«» M §5,000 respectively, ,„d
eauestc- -;.en to turn f osc notes over to you. These two
notes are sent in accordance with your letter of October 19th, to
^ ■ 3ei! ylo.ooo 01 the Ptlieon Phonograph bonds
at It/, ot their par vain., whloh together with ehooh for $3, coo
received from E. c wiip,. o.
“■ Co- ill£*es a total of $12,000,
Vill you kindly acknowledge receipt of these notes as
soon as they ara received.
3rd
October 24th, 1000,
On demand note for $7,500. secured by twelve Edison
bonds, 1 am willing to ;;ive Kr . Villard until January 1,
irciae the option to purchase the ten bonds at 75^ of the!
Yours very truly- — ~
Jpofford,
34 Broad Street,
18.
In reply to youi’ favor of the 20th Inst., I "beg to state
iat I expe» '• I# l.a at Orange every day, hut before coining over
'.VO”' r; o.:!.v“ you :.o call up on the telephone so as to he sure
am . re . Yours truly,'
I beg to advise you that my account against the Galisteo
Co. amounting to #1863.891*8 been running a long time, and I
would appreciate it very much if you would kindly send me a check
for same by return mail, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
American Malting Co . ,
••'•3rd & 64th Street, East Eiver,
Few York.
Dear Sir:
Yours received. I do not think the house and grounds
could be duplicated for less than §12000, so that is the price I
finer
put on it. I know of no place in the XJ. S. for a short winter
stay than llyers, and as I am getting old and intend going there
more to spend the winter, I am naturally not anxious to sell even at'
Oct. 29, 1900.
Henry R. Hoyt, Esq.,
11 William Street,
snart 16 1.29 cents per ton.
Shaft 17 0.291 cents per ton
13 1.62 cents per ton.
My men have let their holes out hy Contract which they say is
twice as cheap as the day labor method. Thay also state that they
definitely located the limits of the probable auriferous area with
the advise of Mr. Burns as previously reported, and they sunk shaft
17 well within the limits and say that Mr. Burns now claims it is
not within the limits, and also that Mr. Burns states that you are
very much dissatisfied with their work, all which goes to show that
there is considerable friction between them. 1 think you should
now decide what is to be done, 4s far as the Milling of the gravel
goes/that is proved with the Probably that 10 cents per ton aver-
. give a handsome profit.
Now the question is how much gravel ii
' better. X know of uu way no una xnav
J out except
i the outskirts and gradually come towards the
ivej. ib Xfc.Qre which will
way to find thav „ +
#,H. H. H.
the know n rich area. You have got to have a starting line some¬
where. Burns evidently wants to keep right in the heart of the
mesa, sink a lot of holeB in a small area, enthuse over the richness
and as sum : the rest is rich also. It is for you to decide what you
want done. I Should not "be asked to do that.
Yours very truly,
2(
n William Street,
Hew York.
Tteo.r Sir:
I think that Lawson should com, out and talk over .haft,
tf idoa of going t0 probable ltolt, „ area aM >JMt foop hoieo
North, south, tat and tat was ,h,t one. for ail we „uia teo.
th. how,d„i.s, and possibly we might atriks an or, ohann.l, a.
four holts would diminish tho are. more than ons half. With
12 holes .. oould narrow th. area down very el.aely and then a few
more hole, would clearly define th. rich area. Killer * Chapman
knew all about my method of contracting out hole, a, practised in
cement prospecting, „a had they been in charge at first, all the
necessary hole, would doubtlessly been sunk for th. mon.y ewa,d
■by Burns on the present holes.
I
Your:
Nov. 3, 1900.
Geo. H. Day, Esq.,
100 Broadway,
New York.
Dear Sir;
In reply to your favor of the 23rd ult,, I fceg to state
that I have a small Experimental Mill on the Ortiz Grant near
Santa Ee now working its dry process and has proved successful,
saving 92 l/2^ of the go4.d in the placer. The parties are now
sinking holes to determine the extent of the deposit with a view
of erecting a large Mill with four large steam shovels to handle
the gravel. If your gravel is not cement, the process will work
it all right on a large scale. The Ortiz gravel runs about 30
cents per Cubic Yard.
Yours truly,
Nov. 8, 1900.
Mrs. W. L. Edison,
Hotel Roland, 59th St.
Hew Yorlc.
Dear Mrs. Edison:
I heG to enclose you herewith check for $12.75, the same
Deing in payment for hill of Walker, Gorden laboratory Co. for
milk. I also enclose you herewith hill from Beley. B Pharmacy which
was sent to me hy Mr. Svoboda. Will you kindly look over this
Mil and see if all the items are correct and if so return same to
me and I will send you a check for it.
You will notice on the first page of the hill that I have
found a mistake of $1 in addition which makes the total of this
hill $29.96 instead of $30.66 as rendered. I think before you
return the hill to me it would he a good idea to show them their
mistake in addition.
Trusting that both you and your husband are getting
along nicely, I remain,
/
I
Yours truly,
Messrs. Hanning, Maxwell & Moore, ■
89 Liberty Street,
Mew York.
Dear Sirs:
We have still been unable to sell the stock of iron ore
briquettes we have on hand at our plant at Edison,. IT. J. aa we
had expected to do, and prospects are not very favorable for sales
until the very large stock of iron ore at the Eastern furnaces have
been used up. It will therefore be quite an accomodation if you
will permit me to pay 25^ of the note due Nov. 23rd 1900, $886.98
and renew the balance for three months with interest.
Trusting you will accomodate me, and thanking you very
much for past favors, I am,
Yours very truly,
22:
Nov. 15, 1900.
S. C- . Burn, Esq.,
Dolores, ITew Mexico.
Dear Mr. Burn:
Is there anything the matter with the Laboratory bills?
Some time ago we made out duplicates as per your request and for¬
warded them to you, and you wrote and told me that the bills had
n sent to the Mew York office and they would mail us a check
direct. After waiting a long time, I wrote to the Teasurer of the
Company at Maw York, but up to the present time I have not received
h nor a reply, if you oan do anjrthing to have these bills
Paid, I. would like it very much, as I do not care to go to Mr.
Edison and inform him that I haw
1 ha re been unable to get this account
paid.
Everything up here is running along pretty lively. We
have at the laboratory about 150 men and Mr. C-ilmore has at his
Place about 1100. and has just about all the work that he can turn '
out, with the prospects of being busy for a good while to come.
VMth kind regards to all, I remain,
Yours very truly,
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Nov. 20, 1900.
J. H. Block, Esq.,
O/o The .T. Block Co.,
Moscow, Russia.
My dear Sir:
I duly received your favor of the 19th of September, but
I have been away so much recently and have had so many other things to
look after that I have not had an opportunity to take up with my Manager
the question of the arrangement with Mr. Stevens and yourself. For
some little time past my people have been thinking of taking over and
pushing the foreign end of the business themselves, and to this end
arrangements have been made whereby after the first of December the
business will be handled by the National Phonograph Co.
Of course I am not familiar with the methods heretofore pursued by
Mr. Stevens, but in view of the fact that this business will shortly
be turned over and be handled by the Company direct I think that more
satisfaction will naturally ensue. I would say, however, that it is
the intention to have Mr. Stevens manage the foreign end of the business,
but at the same time, it will be done under the supervision of people
close to myself, so that I will be more or less in touch with what is
going on. Of course, as you are doubtless aware, I give no time or
attention to the personel or details of the business, leaving that to
others, but X am familiar with the general situation, and X can only
hope and trust that the new
arrangements will inure to the mutual
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benefit of both your Company and my Company.
Trusting that this finds you enjoying your usual, good health,
and with kind regards, believe me,
Yours very truly,
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A. C. Davis, Esq.,
361-65th Street, West,
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sir:
Nov. 22, 1900.
I beg to return you herewith your drawings and description
received with your letter of the 14th inst., and beg to state that
my time is so fully occupied with my own inventions, that I have
no chance to take up anything outside.
Yours truly,
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Nov. 23, 1900.
ttenry B. Ktamel, Esq.,
Assistant State Geologist,
Trenton, N. J.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of tlie 20th Inst., I heE to state
that I have several hundred assays of Cement No ole and Limestone
in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, all varying in every conceivable
manner. The Cement Rock at Stewartsville has about the same assay
as that of the Vulcanite Works. The Limestone is about 95 to 96
Carbonate Lime. You can come up and consult the record book any
time .
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Mr. P. H. Pollen, Manager,
Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.,
7 Amberley House,
Norfolk Street,
London, W. C., England.
Dear Sir;
In reply to your favor of the 14th inst., I beg to state
that -should you send an Engineer, send only a practical Mechanical
Engineer v/ho is familiar with machinery and steel building construc¬
tion. Do not care if he knows anything about electricity and do
not appoint him Engineer, but merely Inspecting Engineer. We
shall probably have to use American Engineers for erection and a
great deal of construction- we can contract out. I want to say that
this Winter I am reconstructing the Mill at Edison, putting all
the machinery on stone and changing the wood to steel construction.
We found it impossible to work crushing machinery on wood.
We shall not be able to start up until Spring. Mr.
Mallory has been away on a vacation and on his return (Dec.l) will
give you the figures of our run at Edison.
Yours truly,
26
.Dec. 3, 1900.
Laura L. Deacon,
216 East Broad Street,
Burlington, N. J.
In reply to your favor of the 26th ult., I heg to state that
the first words spoken in the phonograph were: "Mary had a little
lamb its fleece were white as snow, and every where that Mary went
the lamb was sure to go"
Yours truly,
Win. J. Galligher, Esq. ,
46 Broadway,
New York.
Dec. 3, 1900.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 23rd ult., I beg to state
that I never authorized my son to draw a draft on me and therefore
I refuse to pay same, and you must look to him for the money.
Yours truly,
Dec. 5, 1900.
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c/o Case & Newkirk,
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hear Kir:
.four father requested me to write and ask you why it is
t“at ’,C>U sti11 continue giving checks v/hen you have no money iq, the
hank and also drawing drafts. Until X receive a reply to this
letter, giving me the reason why you have been doing this so I
can show it to your father, I am. authorised to stop sending you any
more checks, so the sooner you send the information the sooner you
will receive your check.
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Wm. Dirwidd.Lf
December 6,1900,
The A. It, Mining Company,
Tsaflville,
Col.
Dear Sira? "
Replying to y our is , beg to state that »e are not as yet
ready to take «p the question of selling the new device tot Re¬
heating con^ressed air , but Hope to have it on the market in the
near future, at which time nfe will write you.
Yours very truly.
Dec. 7, 1900.
December 8th ,1900.
Dear Mr. Darlings
Mr. Edison has a use for Metallic -Cadmium, and in
Wmn s in^y ?rom the Hew Jersey Zinc Company as to the Amount of
it available, We learn that there -is only a small percent of It t?
be 1184 in the 1110 tal lie zino, and they suggest that Professor Kemp,
of Columbia College, would probably be able to tell us whether there
is any ore in this Country carrying any quantity of cadmium. If
so, w6 no doubt , could arrange to hare this ore smelted by itself
and in this way, save the cadmium.
Will you please take this matter up for Mr. Edison
and learn what yod tan about ores containing cadmium. We know that
there is only a, very small amount of it produced now and could
use probably several hundred tons * year, ft it was available.
Thanking you in advance fpr your trouble in the
natter, I am
Yours very truly,
Hr. E. A. Darling, M. E., ■ v- ,-.A^
Stewartsvilie ,
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Dec. 10,1900
Thomas A. Edison Jr,, Esq.,
o/o Case & Newkirk,
35 Nassau Street,
Hew York.
Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 8th inst. oame duly to hand, and in
reply J beg to state that I do not see what the public has got to
do with your affairs and I would advise you to keep everything
out of the Press, as I can not see that it would do any good.
Yours truly, y1'
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Dec. 10,1900.
James H. White, Esq.,
Northern Pacific Freight House,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 25th ult. came duly to hand, and in
reply 1 beg to state that I have always made it a rule never to
pass an opinion on other peoples inventions. I therefore return
you herewith your drawing and specification.
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15y dear Mr. Shalmerdine:-
Xn regard to the -beet of the Cement Burner , it is
ready to run; the "gun" for throwing the fine coal into the Buhner
was first made to operate by hand and was successful , and is now
being made to run by paver and will soon be completed.
We are not well fixed here to crush large pieces of
cement rook and have arranged to do this at Stewartsyille with ouf
Crusher and then crush -to find powder here by the rolls.
The first experimental, coal crushing plant was too
small to give the output needed and so we built a larger plant .
We have had some little trouble to get .the larger plant to give the
desired results, but think we have it alright now,. and will grind
the coal as soon as it Is received. We have ordered two oars oflt
for. thin work; so as soon as we have the fine coal and -cement rock
ready, the test will be started. We shall get at it as quifckly as
possible.
You fully understand that the results of the burner
test will only show how much fuel can be saved and the output in¬
creased over existing burners used by other Cement Mills., due to -the
regenerating device; and that the principle of the burner is the
Bane dB that used by all other cement Mills.
Yours very truly,
Hr. Win, H. Oiermerdine ,
Philadelphia, Pa-
Dec. 13, 1900.
Messrs. Killer & Chapman,
Dolores,
ITew Mexico .
Dear Sirs:
Messrs. Hoyt and Lawson have concluded that they will
not spend any more money on the Cunningham Mesa, hut want one of
you to stay and prospect the other Mesas on the Grant, working
only two or three men to see if something can not he found that
w-*uld warrant the erection of a Mill.
So you will agree among yourselves which one of you will,
come hack to the Laboratory, should anything he found that looks
promising then both will go hack.
After the other Mesas have been roughly prospected, they
want the Copper property looked over and samples gotten, also the
big long, vein of pyrites running a mile or more and reported 50 to
75 feet thick, which is reported to he on the Grant. 'Phis state¬
ment is in the U. s. Geological Survey.
Mou will jointly make a report to me at once, giving
your joint opinion as to the area in the Cunningham Mesa and the
total Cubic Yards therein which will run say 15 cents per Cubic
Yard in place. I want your opinion from your resultB.
Also get some grease and grease up every hit of your
machinery, use it unsparingly to cover every hit of metal which can
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rust, also board up everything that may he affected hy the weather,
bo that when we do want to wort: the Mill again, it will he in per¬
fect condition. Box up small things which might he stolen if
laid around.
Send your report or rather your opinion as asked for above
as soon as possible.
Yours,
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31 Nassau Street,
New York.
bee. 13, 1900. -
bear Sir:
I beg to enclose you herewith note dated Oct. 31st, 1900,
one year for $20,000. Will you kindly let me know how much in
revenue stamps is on the paper which you hold, as X think I have
made a mistake in it.
Yours truly,
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Deo. 13, 1900.
Director of Census,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
We beg to enclose you herewith a copy of the report which
we handed to the agent who had charge of this district months ago.
We can not understand why you have not received same, unless it
is caused by the' fact that you have the Post Office marked Orange
and our office is in West Orange, IT. J., although the majority
of our mail is sent to Orange N. J. which is only a short distance
from our office.
During the census year which ended June 1st, 1900, at
our plant at Edison, N. J. we did no manafacturing, all the
work being construction and experimental.
Trusting that this report is satisfactory, we remain,
Yours truly,
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Bee, 20,1900
Arthur V. White, Esq.,
nion, Hew York.
Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 20th inst. with inclosurea came duly
to hand, and In reply I beg to state that I have too many irons of
my own in the fire at the present time to go into anything new.
Yours truly,
Dec. 21,1900.
U. B. Curtis, Esq.,
Johannesburg, Kern Co.,
Cal.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 13th inst., X Beg to state
that my small experimental mill at Ortiz worked successfully, exu
ir.g never less than 94^ of the assay value, hut the ground is too
poor to work, yielding only six cents per ton.
Yours truly.
My Dear Bergman:
X shall want about 1000 II. P. of Motors at the Cement
Works, approximately the following. Based on Open Motors (not
inclosed) 220 Volt Current.
29-5 Horse Power 400 Rev.
) V.— from 600 to 800 Rev.
) / or thereabout.
* medium speeds COO
r gears are designed
motors is 45£. Have not got duties on punohings yet.
I think you better send full size motors in each grade
where the change in diameter starts, I suppose four motors is all
tru-.t will be required^ Also send punohings, commutator bars and
--- H sample punonings, commutator ba
3. model of winding ana resistance boxes, etc. and drawings
; all right will cable
■y thing going on well
3 or 4
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P. H. Klein Jr., Esq., ‘ ' '
578 Eirst Ave.
New York.
Dear Sir:
Your tutor of the 4th that. .noao.l„e ,y tor
BOO i» duly to hand. Thanhing you vary muoh tor same, I renaln,
Yours truly,
Eugene L. Rooks, Esq.,
Puerto Cortes: , s. H. ,
Central America,
Dear Sir:
Jan. 10,1901.
In reply to your favor of the 24th ult., I Beg to state
that if you will send me a sample of the ore hy mail, I will assay it
for nothing as science is in dire need of platina and palladium. Be
sure and mark the sample Both inside and outside so I can tell where
it comes from. Yours truly,
328
Jan. 18, 1901.
Eredcrick A. A. Talbot, Esq.,
c/o Cook's Tourist Agency,
244 Broadway, Hew York.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your i'avur or the 14th inst., I beg to state
that I do not want to publish anything about my iron mining business
at presunt .
Yours truly,
Jan. 18, 1901.
A. H. Stebbins, Esq.,
Little Rock, Ark.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 12th inst., I beg to state
■that our experiments at Ortiz gave 94J* saving. V/e put 600 tons into
one, but as the gravel went only four cents to the cubic yard it
wo uld not pay.
Yours truly,
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ll William Street,
New York.
Rear Sirs
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your oheck for $1.06,
the same being in payment for telegram Bent to Messrs. Miller & Cha#-
majt^ for whioh accept my thanks.
I beg to call your attention to the faot that there Is a
balanoe still due me amounting to $1853.29 which has been running a
long time. I hare written a number of times to Mr. A. W. Hoyt and
Mr. S. G. Burn in regard to a check for same, but up to the present
time I have not received it and I will appreciate it very much if
yOu will send me a check by return mail in payment of this account,
Which will greatly oblige,
Y9ur$ truly,
fan. 29, i9oi.
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Henrr *• Hoyt, Eoq. ,
11 ^liam Street,
Hew York.
Hea r Sir:
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KinCy return tt, paper. «tt y.ur reply, greatly oklige,
Y°ur« truly,
Jan. 31, 1901.
/ . P. Bodge, Esq.,
321 West 116th St.,
Mew York.
Bear Sir:
I heg to return you herewith your drawings and descrip¬
tion received with your letter of the 24th inst., and heg to state
that I do not know of any one at the present time who would like
to become interested in the subject mentioned.
Yours truly,
11 William St.,
Hew York.
Dear Sir:
I beg to enclose you herewith letter from Mr. C. M. Chap¬
man dated Jan. 23, 1901. After you have read same will you kindly
return it to me, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
Jan; 31 } 1901.
Thos. Hatcher, EBq.,
Austin, Texas.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 24th inst., 1 beg to state
that it is true about the xray.bat You are working in a fruitful
field. The blind are sensitive to unknown radiation in ny opinion.
Yours truly,
January 31st ,1901.
My dear Insull:-
V.e are about to decide the question of -vvbat kind of
Joints we will use on our steam piping at the Cement Company, where
v/e expect to carry 160# steam. We have under consideration, among
others, the Welded Flanges made by the National Tube Works Company,
and we are told that the North Western Elevated Railroad Company,
your City, have Welded Flanges and they have proved to be rather
unsatisfactory. Will you kindly investigate the matter, advising
me what they have to say regarding the Welded Flanges, also what
your experience has been, if you have had any of them.
Thanking you in advance for your reply, I am,
Yours very truly,
Samuel Insull, Esq.,
Chi oago -Edison Co.,
Chicago, Ills.
Feb. 5, 1901.
o Fe*- 5> 1901-
Dear Bergman: /
Yours of Jan. 23rd received. The list of motors dent you
were only approximate and we pap n,ot tell exactly. Where we think
we want one size we may want one size larger. Again in our -business
we have to have stuffing "box bearings, and out of many tried in
©UT dust bin only one has Btood actual tests. I think you better
send the punchings and carry out the arrangement as first proposed,
as 1 have gone ahead on that basis; sending the 40 and 50 H. P.
Motors is all right.
i think the most satisfactory arrangement would be to pay
you a little something on all the motors we build, for instance,
we pay you the diffen’isnce between the price you charge for punching
and the duty we would have to pay, Cie) 45^ and find this sum for
eaoh motor and this sum wte pay you as a royalty on Motors we build,
and we make the punchings here, you selling us a set of dies and ar¬
mature Coil Machinery eto. We think i
over here, although ths competition ii
; us a set of dies and ar-
» build up quite a trade
le thing that will please you
: more ohance before you die to make a little money.
To S. Bergman, Esq.,
Oudenarder Strasse No. 23,
Feb. 6, 1901.
Messrs. Breakenridge & Tichenor,
744 Broad Street,
Newark, N. J.
Bear Sirs:
In reply to your favor of the 4th inst., I beg to state
that I have decided to put up a factory either on property mentioned
or a better place near the Laboratory. Bo you know of any other plot
as good for my purpose for the money.
Yours truly,
ft. R. Hoyt, Esq.,
11 William Street, \
Hew York.
Dear Sir:
I "beg to enclose you herewith a statement of my account
against the Galisteo Company, amounting to $1853.29, in regard to
same I have written to Mr. H. K. Bloodgood, Mr. S. G. Burn, to Mr.
A. W. Hoyt twice and onoe before to yourself.
Will you kindly send mo a check in payment of same, and greatly
oblige,
Yours truly,
Howard VI. Hayes, Esq.,
Prudential Building,
In reply to your favor of the 12th inst., I heg to state
that I looked through every contract which I have here in regard
to the phonographs, and can not find anything that the Hew England
Co. is a party of, nor do I ever remember having seen one in this
13 Cedar Street,
In reply to your favor of the 13th inst., I beg to state
that the card case and memorandum book came safely to hand. Thank¬
ing you very much for same, I remain,
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Dr. J. H. Sloan,
Sante Pe,
Hew Mexico .
Dear Doctor:
Youre of the 8th Inst, is at hand, and in reply to your
questions about the use of the new Placer process would say that
Mr, Edison is ready to put in ±n wherever the deposit warrants
the outlay -under the following terms and conditions.
Your company to pay all expenses and Mr. Edison to have
entire control and supervision, that is, your company to pay all
cost of designing and erecting buildings, constructing and installing
machinery, railroads and steam shovel, and maintaining and oper¬
ating same j all to be under the direction and supervision of Mr.
dison, who is to furnish all the men, but their wages to be paid
by the company.
Then his royalty to be one third of the yearly net prof¬
its after deducting 2 0# on money invested in Mill; for instance,
euppose the plant cost $150, 000 ' twenty per cent of that would be
$30,000. Suppose the yearly profits were $50,000 then his Royalty
would be one third of $20,000 or $6,666.00, so you see that the
company get 20# on the investment before paying any royalty and
then pay one third of the excess over 20# that is made.
Of, if,™ try t Mi Bon VpOT,* the net warning* above 80*
(2)
he is to have supervision of the work, hut if it falls below that
point he forfits the power to oontroll the operations.
He will grant no exclusive rights, hut will make separate
contracts for each proposition.
The fineness of the gold is immaterial, hut it must he
loose gravel, not cemented. He estimates that the cost of oper¬
ating a_5,000 cubic yard plant, would he 12 to 15 cents per cubic
yard. This figure would he reduced by increasing the capacity of
the Mill or increased by reducing the capacity. The whole depending
upon the character of the gravel, cost of fuel, wages etc.
Ho acourate estimate of the cost of the plant or of the
time required for erection can he made until all conditions are
fully known.
As soon as you know that your people want to go ahead,
Wire me and X will send you some instructions and also some more
questions to he answered. If you have a large quantity of gravel
that will run 20 cents per cubic yard and are sure of its extent
and value, there is a chance to make a big thing out of it.
The first thing to he done is to make absolutely sure of
its extent and value by careful tests of samples from all parts
of the deposit.
Very truly yours,
Feb. 15, 1901.
esool
Galistoe Company,
New York.
Gentlemen:
I herewith send you the report of the Engineers Messrs.
Miller and Chapman on the experiments and prospeoting of the Ortiz
Mine grant property.
It will "be evident from the report that the value of the
gravel is far helow the amount stated hy all who have been in pos¬
ition to know, and that the oonf/trttoted area spoken of in the report
while containing a somewhat higher value than the whole is yet too
small to warrant the erection of a Mill of sufficient size to pay
a profit and return the investment when exhausted.
Yours truly,
Neb. 18, 1901,
German National Bank,
■760 Broad street
Newark , N.J
Bear Sira:
3f
I Beg to enclose you herewith my check for #15,000.00,
and in place of same will you kindly give bearer draft jan iondon,
payable to the order of the Edison Ore-Milling Syndicate, iteited
for 5,000 pounds, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
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Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.,
7 Amberley House, Norfolk Street,
London, W. C.,
England.
Dear Sirs:
Mr. Dick informs me that when it Was decided to inorease
the Capital stock of the Syndicate, that he agreed to a certain
increase and agreed to have his proportion and mine paid Of such
increase. I knew nothing about this understanding until he returned
to America. While it never was my Intention to act as a capitalist,
except as to pioneering my inventions experimentally which requires
a great amount of money. I will in this case pay my proportion,
which Mr. Dick tells me he agreed upon. I have therefore sent you
three thousand pounds, to he plabed to my credit.
Yours truly,
Howard W. Ha-yea, Egqj,
Prudential Building,
Ijre\ra.rk, K. J.
Dear Sir:
I Beg to advise you that X spoke ' i Mr. Edison in regard
to having you write a letter to the Galis- in order to try
and collect his account, amounting to u.29 and Mr. Edison
stated that we "better wait a while and no1: ■■ anything in regard to
it at present. As soon as I hear anything further from him in
regard to same I will immediately advise yen.
Yours truly,
Qf:
35 Nassau Street,
New York.
Dear sir:
Your favor of the goth inst. in. regard to a judegment
against Thomas A. Edison Jr. and William Holzer came du3^ to hand,
and in reply I heg to state that as I know nothing about -this
matter, I prefer not to have anything to do with it. As the young
man is of age I am not responsible for anything that He does.
Thanking you very very muph for your kind offer in the
matter, l remain,
*eb. 23r4,190l.
Andrew S. )fcCreath,:EBq..,
Harrisburg,
Hear Sir:-*
I have represented to an English syndicate that I have
a Separator which will separate Specular Hematite or* which craps
rrton. the Huirderiand Mines in Norway, tad that I can-mike a con-
ketetrate Assist about &t% metalaic iron and -DteO leg* Phosphorus.
^i'te parties have cabled, me to retain you to verify the statement
** ^serving concentration and by making analysis of the crude
ertabet-ore on concentrates and tiro tailingtsfor mVtaiait iron and
pho^arqs. We- have but one Separator magnet at present ; w^ae
proposed. process requires 14 magnets in tand^ tbe ore entering
the top one aid passing successively down through the hole.
Will Srou k^pdly advice me whethar it wo tad be convenient
Xff you to make an appointment for some day next week, say “Wednesday
d« Thu- rBday and im mil arrange to have everything in readiness
for ybu. Also kindly advise your charge for services and the rate
for iron and phosphorus analyses.
The particular thing to whiclj you are to certify la that
JroU saw the machine separate the concentrates and tailings and made
taalyeie of «bom.
Awaiting your reply, I am,
Your* very truly,
Feb. 25th, ,1901,
The Bell Telephone Company,
Mass.
Dear Sirs:-
I am about to make a small measuring instrument and
'*°uld be obliged if you would advise me the quality and brand of
the steel which you use in your Magneto Receivers. I desire to
get only a small piece about 5/8" wide x l/l6" thick and 2 or 3*
long.
Thanking you in advance for your reply, I . am,
Yours very truly,
Peb. 26th, 1901.
The Washburn & Moon lifg. Co.,
Worcester ,Mass.
Dear Slrs:-
As you may perhaps know, I am at this time building a
cement mill at Stewartsville ,N, J. This mill is to run day and
night and it is my intention to have the steam connections as re¬
liable as it is possible to get them.
Our piping is one straight line of 12" sc 8" in diameter
aT«i about 1500 ft. in length, with branches at three points for
the"Enginee i which are of the Compound Condensing style,500,750 and
750 the boilers being set at about a central point in the
length oa main pipe, with header into same. The pressure we intend
to carry will 150 lbs. per sq. inch.
We are looking into the merits and demerits, if there
are any, of the Van Sto^e joint, and as your name has been given
u/as one of the users of ti<g joint, I will be obliged if you will
let me know what your ere rience v,as been with it.
Please state whether you use ground joints or copper
gaskets. If you have used any of the valves „r fittings made by
the same concern, I would like to know your opinion of them.
Thanking you in advance for an answer to these queries,
which, of .course, will be treated aB confidential, I remain,
Very respectfully yours,
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H. E. Dick , Esq. ,
Hew York City.
My dear Sir:-
Enolosed I heg herewith to hand you report from Mr.
MoCreath, which explains itself.
To his report wo heg to add the following: The' Crude
1«P «.8^ iron of ehich «».,* la teBWlte „„ ^
•egneMte. Ihl‘ W1“ «•» separated give. 1 pea*, 14 „
concentrates.
The mugmimp of 9 pounds 6 ounces essaye 4S.10# iron; this
is made up of tie parties that are part ln>„ „„
w is to to recrushed spa r .separated pith th, iacmlns srude OT,
* “'* “ 1S Mf“r* separation ; as* a. to do at the
plant. .hen this is rsseparated , to get 3 pound, and 12 .
sonssntratss, ee total eonoentrat.s 1, e.
Hematite concentrates
_ 17 Pounds 14-1/2 ounces.
Concentrates for Mugwump 3 „ lg __
Magnetite concentrates _ n
Total concentrates- 33 pou)ds 8_l/2 ounoe£J.
ypurs yery truly,
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Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Fort Myers,
Florida.
Dear Sir:
Enclosed are two letters reoeived from Dr. Sloan of
Sante le, relative to the Colorado placer. I have written him
that owing to your absence I could not answer his questions
concerning a guarantee or fee out of your percentage hut as soon aE
I heard from you I would write him.
Also that in order to put the matter on a good footing
at once he should put the financial men of the enterprise in direct
communication with you.
Hoping that you arrived safely and that your trip is
proving a pleasant one, I am,
1
Respectfully yours.
Mr. 4, 1901.
Dr. S. J. Sloan.
Sante Ee, N. M.
Dear Doctor:
Yours of the 26th ult. received, also yours of /an. 31st
which you mailed to Dolores, enclosing the letters of 10*. Nisbet'e.
As Mr. Edison is now in Florida I can not answer your
questions about his guarantee or his paying you and Mr. uiobot a
part of his percentage. Personally I think Mr. Edison's offer is
very liberal and I should not think he would care to reduoe it by
dividing with anybody, however, I am forwarding your letters to
him and as soon as I receive a reply will write you.
The sample of 200 or 300 lbs. which you offer to send
I do not think is necessary at present.
I believe the first step before putting the matter upon
a good footing is to put Mr. Edison in direct communication with
the financial parties in the enterprise, so that they may come to
an understanding as soon as possible. Of course it is useless to
do much before an agreement is made between them.
1 examined the gravel which you sent and it appears to be
very good stuff for concentrating, but I note that the letters from
Mr. Hisbet says that part of the gold is in a chemically combined
state. Of course this process will only save the free gold com¬
bined with silver or in the Iron or heavy particles of sand.
As to the §150,000 mentioned in my letter of the 15th
ult. which you appear to talce as an estimate on the cost of a
5,000 yard plant, I would say that that figure was assumed only
aw an example to illustrate Mr. Edison's proposition. You will
note that, 1 stated that no estimate of cost could he made until
It would he well to ascertain the value of the gravel
in free gold and silver.
Keep me informed of any developements in this matter.
I will write you again as soon as I hear from Mr. Edison.
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German National Bank,
Broad St.,
X beg to enclose you herewith oheok for $200.00, and In
place of same will you kindly give me two drafts on New York drawn
to my order for $100.00 each, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
jJ^ <3 V
As per your telegram to Mr. Mallory, 1 beg to enclose
you herewith two drafts <?n New York for $100.00 each, alBO two blank
checkB on the German National Bank of Newark, N. J. The reason I
send both of these is because I do not understand the telegram and
so ub to be sure, I therefore send you both. -jau. xw. e-iO
♦■M. tfc itUA L;.::*, -Vv. *{* £■- ■ ■ ■ f d *
/j ;r Youra truly,
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April 9, 1901.
A. W. Hoyt, Esq.,
1 Broadway,
Hew York.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 13th vat., X hag to ask what
is the use of making estimates for the Oriz scheme, when the assays
show that the property IS entirely different from that expected,
arid the values such that it would not ':.o to put up a Mill.
Would he glad to learn what your expert has found out.
Yours truly,
483
S-. Bergman, Esq;.,
Quden-arder Strasse #23,
Berlin, Germany.
Dear Bergman:
In reply to your favor of the 7th ult., I "beg to state
that I have two or three, important cases "before German Office, and
1 have told Dyer to write his man to show Seubel everything and
get his assistance. They are very involved, "being of a chemical
nature, and Seubel may have to get the assistance of a practical
chemist to help him.
Yours truly,
Messrs. Flint & Co.,
30 Broad Street,
In reply to your favor of the 4th inst. in regard to Mr.
Charles N. Jenks, 1 heg to state that I only know good of him, if
you want to know the had part, see Mr. R. N. Dyer, 31 Nassay Street
New York, also Mr. Luther Steringer, Electrician of the Pan Ameri-
cam Exposition of Buffalo, New York.
Yours truly.
m
485
April 9, 1901.
A. E. Kennelly, Esq.,
1203 Crozer Building,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Uy Dear Kennelly:
In reply to your favor of the 4th of March, I heg to state
that I have not heard from all the Foreign Countries, hut when I do
I will give you the points and a battery to test so you can read
the paper and know what you are stating is from actual knowledge.
Yours truly,
1
i
*r°h Peterson Jr., Esq.,
7 Montagu Terrace,
Edinburg!, Scotland,
Pear sir:
Apr. jo, 1901.
In reply to your favor of the 17th ult., X heg to state
that in a few weeks full particulars will he published in the Scien-
° Press in regard to the battery where you can get the, necessary
data. You will recognise the particular battery by its giving absut
1.3 Volts and gives :one H. P. hour for 70 lbs. weight. It is per¬
manent in character.
Yours truly,
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 6th inst., X beg to state
that I have nearly all of my tools ready, and hope to have some
batteries soon for test, after which I will come over and tell you
' what the results are.
truly,
Yours
49
Hartford, Conn,
Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 29th ult. in regard to account of the
New Jersey Electric Vehicle Transportation Co. came duly to hand.
Thanking you very much for same , I remain,
Yours truly,
T. C. Martin, Esq.,
120 Liberty Street,
Apr. 10, 1901.
In reply to your favor of the 5th inst., I beg to state
that the Cadmium Copper Battery is not the "Real Thing" that will
be described by Kennelly.
Yours truly j
49S
J£r. Robert Ingham,
c/o Hume oat Chemical Worlcs,
Accrington, England.
Rear Sir
Replying to yours of Kareh 28th, to Hr.. Edison, we .beg
to state that we have a machine which, will separate gold from .sand
without the aid of water, and we believe the machine is a great
success. Vfe, however, cannot tell how it, would warh on your ore,
and if you are interested, we would be glad to Have you send us
samples of your ore and we will then mehe a report on it showing
.■just what the machine will rln.
Please be sure to take only an average sample, and when
you forward it, marie it with your name and address, as we receive
so many samples and unless this is done, we cannot identify the
material as coming from you. Ten or fifteen pounds is all iwe
require.
;ruly ,
Letterbook, LB-066
This letterbook covers the period April-September 1901. Most of the
correspondence is by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters by
Herman E. Dick, Waiter S. Mallory, and others. Many of the items relate to the
planning and construction of the Edison Portland Cement Co. plant at
Stewartsville, New Jersey, and to Edison's investment in that company. There
are also numerous letters concerning the development of Edison’s alkaline
storage battery and the financial and industrial arrangements for its manufacture.
Also included are letters regarding the erection of an iron ore concentration plant
in the Dunderland region of Norway, in connection with the Edison Ore Milling
Syndicate, Ltd., as well as other items pertaining to Edison's interest in ore
milling, mines, and ores. There is some material dealing with the domestic and
foreign phonograph business, including statements of the assets and liabilities
of the Edison Phonograph Works for 1899-1901; orders for equipment and
supplies; and family and other personal matters.
The label on the front cover contains the following notation: "Personal
Letter Book of Thomas A. Edison From Apr. 12, 1901 To Sept. 4, 1901.
Indexed." There is a label on the spine with similar information. The book
contains 502 numbered pages and an index. Approximately 20 percent of the
book has been selected.
Apr. 12, 1901.
W. Hoyt, Esq..,
#1 Broadway,
In reply to your favor of the 11th inst . , I heg to state
that the estimated cost of the plant will depend upon the area of
gravel and the hest size of the Mill to work out the deposit. I do not
see that you gain any time by having the estimate made now, as it can he
made in two or three weeks, after you have proved up the ground to make
an estimate which will he fairly accurate, it will he necessary to lay
out roughly on the draughting hoard the general plan with some of the
details, this will cost aho\it $200. I can go ahead now and do it, hut
: advise waiting.
From other information which I gathered from outside parties
been familiar with the deposit for years, I am convinced that
Chapman and Miller's
■esults are correct.
Howard
At
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am
I
V. Hayes.
‘r ’ recently learned of a "fact, which X think in correct, and.
ny result in yourself and the friends who loaned money to the
Edison United Phonograph Co. getting hack some of it. In -he mortgage •
iourc the money, the most viable asset of the Company, to wi
OOO in stock of Miaon Phonograph V/orks, which stock has
ig dividend o right along, was entirely left out. Mr. Hayes
i in tliis to you more fully. If this information is of any v
-ou, you are welcome to it.
Yours very truly , _ _
Apr. 17, 1901.
/
A. Hoyt, Esq. ,
#1 Broadway,
flew York,
Dear Sirs
In reply to your favor of the 15th Inst,, I bag to state
that if the plant is to be six thousand the cost would be one
figure, if ten thousand it would be less, in any event it would
have to be laid out roughly to get at the number of men. It is
easy tc make the statement as to the ground not being such as to
7/arrant the construction of a Mill, because any mill of any size
would not work the gravel assaying according to the tests, at a
profit, and the smaller it was made the less chance it would have.
Your 8 truly,
April 30th, 1901.
Mr. W, H. Shelmerdine, President,
The Edison Portland Cement Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Sirt-
I heg herewith to hand you hlue-print of our Works at
Stewartsville>,N.J. , the original plans and estimates were for a
plant having a capacity of four thousand barrels per day, but as we
progressed with the designing of the work, it was found we could
construct for less money. than originally contemplated, and it was
decided to construct as much as possible for a capacity of ten
thousand barrels per day for the following reasons:
PIRST- In view of the very much less cost per barrel of
output .
SECOND- In view of the much smaller investment and de¬
preciation per barrel of output.
We therefore designed the plant for a capacity of ten
thousand barrels per day, and have built a large part of it to that
capacity; and have so arranged the plans that the other portion,
having at first a smaller capacity, can easily be increased to the
full capacity of ten thousand barrels per day, without in any way
changing that portion that is now built full capacity or materially
interfering with the operation of the plant. I am sure the future
51
Mr. VI. H. S. #2.
will prove the wisdom of this to every stockholder .
The price of cement, in my opinion, must come down con¬
siderably from present market rates, when the consumption will be
enormously increased, and by having our plant built for ten
thousand barrels per day, we will be enabled to make cement at a
cost per barrel far below our first estimate, and permit US to make
a very handsome profit when all existing plants are selling below
their costs. The estimate given you of the cost per barrel based
on an output of ten thousand barrels per day, is conservative, and
to it you can add for contingences whatever you think ample.
In the blue-print i send you of the plant, the red sections
are those that have a capacity of 10,000 barrels per day, a large
part of this is finished including the Railroad and Rolling Stock,
(Quarry, 'Steam shovels, Water Works and Masonry, also large. machinery
and Engines now in place. This represents the largest portion of
the total investment* The yellow sections are those having a
capacity of forty-five hundred barrels per day, which is the amount
we shall build to connect with the red section, and the dotted
lines, in connections with the yellow sections, show the si2tD
of tne when they are brought to full capacity.
Yours very truly, - —
Alfred Reeves, Esq.,
' 150 Nassau St. ,
Mew York.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 27th ult.., .1 beg to state
that at present I am not ready to give out any information in regard
to my storage battery.
Yours truly.
J. 3. EdBort, Esq. ,
313 West 74th St.',
New York.
Hay fi, X&01.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 27th tat., I "beg to say
that my Great Grandfather came from Holland. For generations the
Edison's have been jailers of grain on the Zuyder Zee, so I think
there is no connection.
Yours truly,
Mrs. T. Clarke,
Michigan Ave.,
Tampa, Fla.
May 6, 1901.
Madam:
In reply to your favor of the 20th tat., I beg to state
that the best Electrical School ia the Cornell University at Ithaci
N. Y. , and I would also state that Chemists have the best chances.
Yours truly,
A. H. Pollen, EBq.,
Mgr. Edison Ore Milling Syndicate,
7 Amberley House , Horfolk St.
London, W. C., England.
May 6, 1901.
Ltd.,
Lear Sir:
Your favor of the 15th ult. with enclosures came duly to
hand, and in reply I beg to state that this battery is inoperative
commercially and has no value. It is pure theory.
Yours truly.
May li, l9oi #
C. D. Edgar, Esq.,
3 Head Plaoe,
Boston, Mass.
My Dear Edgar:
In reply to your favor of the 6th inat ■ t +
* *■«*»*« »f «h. „„„ bau.^ „m “•* ‘,e
Voltage 1. i.25, TOlsht Jor p_ hom. ^ J ^ “*
charge and discharge rate t ' ““ be “** le8a
MM. Itor.u »•««». Lag not
Please consider above confidential.
Yours very truly,
A. B. Dick, Esq. ,
154 Lake Street,
Chicago, Ills.
Ky dear Mr, Dick:-
Replying to yours of the 21st inst . , regarding an
objection being made to your attempt to register your labels and
printed matter in England, 'having imprinted upon them my portrait
without my consent, I herewith authorize you so to do, both in the
name of A. B. Lick Company and H. E. Kartyn & Company, your British
Agents.
F
Yours very truly,
May 24th, 1901.
A. Bo Blolc, Esq.,
154 Bake Street,
Dear Sir:-
Chicago, Ills.
In giving you my consent to have your labels, etc. re¬
gistered in England, having imprinted upon them my portrait, I want
to say that I do not want my portrait used for advertising purposes,
that is in newspapers, magazines or any publications .
Very truly yours,
23 Wall St.,
New York.
Beau* Sirs:
I beg to enolose you herewith my check for $66.67, and
in place of same please send me draft on Berlin payable to the
order of Mrs. Marion E. Oeser, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
May 24, 1901,
Win. H. Wiley, Esq.,
C/o American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
43 E. 19th St., New York.
My dear Mr. Wiley:
I have your favor of the 21st, regarding position
for your brother, Mr. 0. S. Wiley, I cannot use him to any advantage
whatever around the laboratory. I have just had a talk with Mr. Gilmore,
and he tells me that at the present time it is absolutely Impossible for
him to place any more help. As he states, and as I am well aware, this
is the dull season for my different interests here, and in fact, Instead
of Increasing our foroes in any branch of the business, on the oontrary,
we are reduoing them. I very rauoh regret to say to you, therefore, that
I cannot at this time see where he oan be used.
Yours very truly,
J
May 25th, 1901,
London,
se ,
ffev.' York City.
irs of the 24th inst . from Washington, and
o have you go with me on Tuesday up to
oan see a Mill, the crushing part of v/hici
Hay 28th ,1901.
The Crucible Steel Company,
71 Broadway,
New York City.
Dear Sirs:-
ror our new storage battery, we will require crucible steel
sheets about 3" wide and .003 thick. Will you kindly advise us
the thine st you now roll your material and if you know of anyone
with facilities for rolling as thin as .003. We have already roiled
some cruoible steel as thin as this on a small pair of laboratory
rolls, but we are now interested in looking the matter \jp in
quantities.
Also please quote us approximate prioe on crucible steel
l/8", 1/46" and l/32" thick and as thin as you roll it. If we' cannot
get it to the thinness we desire, we will fit up with rolls of our
own to do this work.
Thanking you in advance for your reply, we are,
Yours very truly,
' ' ' -J? • . n ■
161
1
To the Board of Directors of the
Bdison Storage Battery Co.,
West Orange, N. J.
I hare invented a new Storage Battery, and I have now pending
ten applications for patents for such invention in the United States
Patent Office. I also expect to continue experimenting in order to
devise improvements in connection with the invention.
I offer to sell you the inventions, for the United States only,
described in said applications now pending, together with all patents
that may Issue upon the same in the United States, and also all rights
in the United States for inventions and improvements on the devices
described in these applications, or which I may invent during a period
of five years from February 1st, 1901. All expenses in connection with
the experimental vrork from February 1st, 1901, havine reference to
these inventions and for the taking out of these patents, to be borne
The prloe at which I will sell you the above for the United
States, is the sum of One Million Dollars (#1,000,000), to be paid in
the proportion of One Thousand Dollars (#1,000) in oaBh and Nine Hundred
and Ninety-nine Thousand Dollars (#999,000) in full-paid, non-assessable
stock of your company.
If this offer is accepted I would alBO agree to give a reasonable
proportion of my time, in view of my other interests and engagements,
May 29th, 1901.
J. Bell , Esq,. ,
906 Broadway,
Oakland, Cal.
Bear Sir
Replying to yours of May ISth, we beg to state that we
have made a test covering a period of several months with our new
dry separator and with very satisfactory results, and are now read
to take Up the matter of working placer deposits that have in¬
sufficient v/atQ r supply.
Tnat we may ewt a better idea of your property, will you
please answer the enclosed lt„t 0f questions and we will then be
better able to determine whether ou, raachine can be successfully
used on your property.
Yours very truly,
(Enclosure)
D. L. & W. Railroad Company,
Wo have purchased the old Essex Brass & Silver Rolling
Rill property and will commence shortly to ship in material, and
would he obliged if you: will call us up- by -phone {#311 Orange,
Station #4) whenever you have freight for the Edison Storage Battery
Company or Thomas A. Edison,, and w* will then arrange to send teams
for it promptly, together with checks.
Yours very truly,
June 3rd, 1901,
noted, we beg he rove',
now using in connection with our storage battery, and we would be
glad to have you roll us the smallest quantity you can make, practically
so as to test your product in our ir.aohines. i’hen, if your sample
to yours of the 1st inst., which we have fully
sample of the stock v
is satisfactory, we will i
undoubtedly be able to do some considerable
; seems to us that the sample we herewith
material than the sample which you sent us.
ery necessary the
• stock be free from buckle
run it into automatic machines and buckles will make considerable
trouble. TShat vie desire is 3" wide x .003" thick.
Yfi'ien the sample is ready, please forward it by express.
send you a formal order for
(Enclosure )
Messrs. J. P, Morgan & Co.,
23 Wall St.,
Mew York.
Dear Sire:
In reply to your favor of the 31st ult., I teg to state
that the rights of my "battery for Prance are for sale. Will you
kindly inform Messrs. Morgan, Harjes & Co. to that effect, and
that my agent, Mr. H. E. Dick will call upon
ha oomes to Prance.
Yours truly,
Henry U. Palmer, Esq. ,
North 6th St. & Kent Ave.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dear Sir :
In reply to your favor of the 4th inst , , I "beg to state
that I do not care to give out prices, any information or, talk
Mr. Harjes as soon as
June 6.1901.
"business in connection with my "battery until my factory and
automatic machinery is ready for manufacturing same, which "will not
"be for several months.
sari
ex
«Ppi«S #4 has been cleaned and all
tc the Phonograph Works.
wax refuse sent
Yours very truly,
‘'W-- .'/ J . C^c?
r.?Mf
M?.
W. I,. Barker, Be 4. ,
Booneyilie, Ind„
.Dear Sir I
Ii} reply to your favor of the 28th alt., l beg to state
1 do not care to give out prices, information or talk business
1 (inaction vvi th my battery until my factory and automatic
.nary is ready'- for manufacturing same, which will not be for
■al months.
Yours truly
B. ICohn, Esq,
Lincoln,
19, 1901.
, ITeb.
Bear sir:
In reply to your favor of the 17th Inst., I beg to state
tnat I do not th Ink Wre is any money to be made out of the
printing telegraph.
Yours truly,
0i &
J. C. Re iff, Esq.,
20 Broad St. ,
Eew York.
My Bear Re iff:
June 19, 1901
In reply to your favor of the 17th Inst., * would llke
very much to have you bring over some concentrates and I wm
briquett some samples on a hand press. We are designing the work
of rebuilding the Edison plant of steel and stone.
Yours truly.
Telegraph B. & 0. R, R.
Supt of
Baltimore, Md.
TTrlend Selden:
Many thankB for your favor of the 12th inst. The "battery
is all right.
Yours truly,
June 19, 1901.
A. J. Lockwood, Esq.,
Pres. Glen Ridge Park Assn.
Glen Ridge, R. J.
Daai* Sirs
In reply to your favor of the 17th inst., I "beg to etate
that I would "be pleased to see your committee. One thing I can
promise you in view of the nature of the neighborhood, I shall
only "burn anthracite coal and do everything possible to render the
works unobj ectlonable .
June 19,1901,
Henry R. Jones, Esq.,
Grand Encampment, ‘Wyoming:
Friend Jones:
Your favor of the 13th Inst, came duly to hand, and in
reply i beg to state that we have tried Utica and many thousands of
instruments are using them, but the variations in manufacturing an
so great that we use glass.
JlHke out a list of two dozen records, I want to send
them to you with say compliments.
■
Yours truly,
June 20, 1901.
Messrs, Piiiing & Crane>
Girard Building,
Philadelphia, pa.
Dear Sirs:
» ha,, an inquiry tree, w loMo„ s,ople a8kln8 M to
^ ^rnaoee. we have already the
report iron, the stanhope Pumaoe and wieh yon w„ula ,,rlt, UB ,
letter the letter head „ the Purn.o. 0^„y_ ^ ^
experience you had with the briquettes.
“ ^ ,M“ bMt’ ^erhapa it »l81l, tetter to he,,
ronr euperintendent write the tetter and re™* „ t0 n. „
“ poeelble, as we are anyone to iorward it to the London p..pl.
promptly. * *
WT
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June 21, 1901.
E0 H, Johnson, Esq.,
16 A. Soho gquare,
London, w ., England,
toy Dear Johnson:
f jrlx ’ your favor1 of the 4th inst., I beg to state
that some time r .. . Herman E.Dick became associated with me in
the Ore Killing schen in Europe and now has charge of the "Foreign
end. of my new battery.
Dick will do nothing abroad with the battery until
my factory is complete here and I am turning out batteries commer¬
cially. You will probably see Dick the next time he visits England,
as he often 3peake of meeting you in London.
Yours truly,
polled to repurify.
Cannot
furnish it
lasonably free
B. V. Covert Co.,
66 Market St.,
In reply to your favor of the 21st inst., I beg to state
that I expeot my f aotory v/illhe ready about JTov. 1st to turn out from
20 to 30 seta of automobile batteries daily. Can not give you
prices exactly, but think they will be about the same as lead
batteries per horsw-power-hour.
I may wan'; tie or two of your run abouts a little later
i:„ Dunning, Esq.,
Vie oiiani c sburg , Pa.
Dear bir:
In reply to your favor of the 18th inBt., I beg to state
that I did not promise you a position, but I said that as soon as
I oould find an opening that I would give you a ohanoe.
Tours truly,
<rntn, L\ V$*A#r,
The Brooklyn Trust Co.,
Brooklyn,
New York.
Bear Sirs;
Kindly advise me what rate you will make me a four months
loan for $10,000 secured hy Twenty (20) 5^ gold Bonds of the
Edison Phonograph Works, par value $1000 each. You have made two
or three loans to me previously on this collateral.
I Beg herewith to enclose you a statement showing the
financial condition of the Phonograph Works.
t par Kilowatt
ig at firs'b is
at 300 watts V
fc-al , and where
r, 1)6 greatly r
battery. ’ii
ov/ charged for
unable to dete
rging under a3
attery will Is
ttir.g our £ aoi
s 24 tli. inst . (59 5 5 -TV) win
hour is about 85 pounds ana th
for automobile a,, the dimensio
sing 5-l/S" square x 12" deep,
cheapness is not absolutely es
JduoeS without in any way dimlr
e price per Kilowatt hour will
lead batteries in automobiles,
at any depreciation whatever bj
1. sorts of conditions and it if
st as long as a motor or dynamc
ory machinery ready and hope tc
ere 5. ally about November first r
batteries com:.
0. D. Collins, Esq.,
.Pino Lake, Cal.
Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 26th ult. oame duly to hand, and in
reply I heg to state that I would like to have you send me a
couple of ounces of the metal hy.mail and he sure and mark it sc
X can tell where it comes from.
Yours truly.
334
A. W. Fraser, Esq. ,
64 Sparks St.,
Ottawa, Ont., Canada.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor or th.-geth alt., I bec to state
that I .hall hay ay -lole.1 1„ ope- martat. I hay. „o arrangement
with the combine and at preeent have no time going Into Hlofcel in a
mining way, but later I may to .o', Wenld be plea.eC to hay. any prin¬
ted matter report., geological and oth.rwl.e yon oonld conveniently
procure.
Yours truly,
X beg to enclose you herewith my oheck for $2240.00, also |
six months note for $6000.00, the same to take care of my note g
held by Mr. W. T . Alexander which falls due on July 10th for $8000.00., ji
the interest on the $8000.00 amounting to $240.00 is included in the
enclosed check.
Kindly return the old note, and thanking you very much
for your trouble, I remain,
Yours truly,
339
c/o D. Van No strand & Co,,
23 Murray St., New York.
Bear f3ir:
Will you kindly let me know at what price you can get me
a complete set of "Beriohte der Deutschen Chemisoses Gesellschaft",
also at what price you can get me "Danmers Inorganic Chemistry,"
and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
Glencoe, Ill.
Bear Sir:
I beg to state that the sample of Niokle ore came duly
to hand. Please send me a copy of any reports on the district and
mines and on your mine as well and all particulars. If I am to start
on working up a process, I want all the data I can obtain.
Youtb truly,
Cl (.Wf 3 C>->
u. s. Si "Brutus", at. Sea,
Washineton, r>. c,
Dear Sir:
^ , rr '*■ “**-«. <-.«%, i.tt„
^ «. «a, *n_ Cavite, P. _ ln „Teral aw, ,0Oi
an aunt say that it caused more than a passing interest to my people
^ as 1 raust admit that It seems wonderful to me t0
*** *** * “O «o»W * .areas, euoh vieieeitndei
and still produce satisfactory results.
a. i, .. y.« m it. i«»«y ... Bhortly brlnr Mt
So».«,ta0 entirely new in .He w or reproduction, end X r..a
thl' 1"8*r"”“t' been a hothy -u
considered as much of the household as a oiano 0r ntw . .
I de.ire to thnnk you for ye„r very run .» complete ^ „
the particular phonograph that you have and you- letter ein, I can
»r. you, mat in w .peoial me dedicated to the phonograph end or
Tours very truly,
Mi
7 Amberley House, Forfolk St.,
Xdndpn, W. C-. , England.
Dear Sir:
July 13, 1901.
Yours of Jun6 28th at hand. The delay with the magnets is due
first to the failure of the steel people to ship them as -agreed and second
to the suggestion of Mr. Riohards himself, that instead of only making a
complete hank of Hematite “Separators, that we make a complete Bank of
Magnetite Separators in addition, fill a required that we Should make
and experiment with wooden model to get heat form and finally to obtain
more steel castings.
Regarding Mr. Richards suggestion that we erreot a small plant
at the mine using the smaller rolls at Edison, I would say that the
costs of Boilers, Engines, erection of even wood foundations, errection
expanses, freight, wages etc. would amount to a very much- larger sum
than ho . ealizes. America iB as near in point of time, and it y/ould he
very much cheaper to freight and sailing vessel several hundred tons of
the ore and we could run it through the Cement Crushing plant with
practically no expense at all. I must confess that I do not see the use
of all thin. A. glance at cost sheets of almost any crushing plant for
mere crushing will show that this is not a large item.
'Uhe- real thing is to he certain that the ore can he mined by a
itdam shovel.
Snd. that the proposed crushing machinery will crush five ton pieces to
insure cheap mining.
3rd. If two tons of crude ore -will give I ton of briquettes.
4th. If the phosphoroua oan he got below a point where a high grade
Bessemer ore is obtained.
Please say to Mr. Lawrence that I could, not go to Norway
as requested in his Cable. I am making preliminary designs for the
plants and hope to send to Lehmann next week ground plans for plant, so
he can procure all the levels for the Mill site. When you receive the
prints send them to Lehmann at once by .quickest mail route.
As soon a3 the Magnetic outfit with men leave for London,
I should like an authorization from the Company to build one improved
briquetting machine and one baking furnace, so I can design the plant
at the Sea for briquetting.
|| is impossible to say just what it will cost to make this
unit, but I believe it Will not exceed ten thousand dollars. I am sure
that I can construct oven and brioker that will be much simpler, cheaper
to build ar'd require less labor than those at Edison. With this unit no
other chungs a us far as I know will be necessary.
The expenses for Railroad survey, Lehmann, Mill Designing,
Draughtsmen, the cost of Magnetic Separators and London tests and the
proposed Briquetting unit. The Company will have no other expenses, as
(3)
With all the above ana the general designs comjjle ted,
close estimates of cost of plants. Railroad etc. can he obtained, and
then before any further money is risked, Engineers can investigate and
report on the whole soheme. They will have the advantage of seeing the
Cement plant in operation with analagous machinery, also the Zinc Works.
Yours -very truly ►
J" T*. Holler, Esq.,
Hotel Tourrain,
Boston, Magg.
Bear Srir:
July 15, 1901.
and
reply to your favor of the 14th inst., I heg to state that
L n0t M hSre ^ 311 n6Xt Week- 1 ■« away on a brief vacation
v-11 not return unti* about the 8th of August.
Yours truly,
100 Broadway,
Hew York.
Pear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 10th inst., I beg to st.ate
that I leave for Chatauqua on the 20th and will telegraph from inhere
when 1 will come up to Buffalo. I am going to send one complete
eight plate cell and parts.
Yours truly,
W. N. Stewart, Bag;.,
12 Osborns Terraoe, Clapham Road,
Xondon , S. TT., England.
W Dear Stewart:
In reply to your favor of the 5th inst., I beg to state
that I was surprised to learn that you had bought lungers patents.
You will find that they have no value, because they are based on the¬
ory* An actual experiment will prove his patents bad in every
particular.
Yours truly.,
U. s. Geological Survey,
Washington, D. G.
Will you kindly give me a list of the publications relating
to the Nickel deposits of Oregon. I would also like to obtain a
list of publications of other Nickle deposits. Any information
you can give me in regard to the above will be very much appreciated.
, jj. Laird, Esq.,
South Amboy, N. J.
1 beg to return you herewith your drawing received with
• favor of the 10th inst., and beg to state that I do not care
359
July 16, 1901.
1/
Schweiger, Esq. ,
600 Amherst St,,
Buffalo, IT. Y.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 13th inst., I heg to state
that I do not know the address of MR. D. A. Goold.
Yours truly,
July 16, 1901,
W. A. Lynch, Esq.,
o/o Altaian, Hiller Co.,
Canton, 0.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 2nd inBt. , I heg to state
that I intend making the batteries myself and have adopted the plan
of selling them to all manufacturers of automobiles. There will he
a list price to the public and a discount to Manufacturers, and
every body must stick to the price or we will not sell. This gives
a guarantee profit to the manufacturers. I will Bend you some dat in
a couple of months. Yours truly, i' '
3Gir
July 16, 1901.
A„ J. He ".ill an, Eac,,.
c/'c Bank of Br..'. . ah North' America,
Wall St., Hew York.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 2nd inst.,1 Beg to state
that Before you arrive in this country I will he away on a short
vacation at Chatauqua and will not return Before,, about .. August 8th.
I have had two men on the ore continuously, and we have
sucoeeded so far in putting five tons into, one and hope to put
twenty into one and do it cheaply. We think we can get 85^ of coppe
and gold. Our sample sent us does not assay more than §3 gold and
2^ of copper; I suppose it is the general run of 'the mine asked for.
Would like to have 300 IBs. additional. If you are going West you
might stop over and Bee me at Chat ua qua.
Yours truly,
368
July 16', 1901 A
Mr. T. W, lee, Gen'l. Passenger Agent,
26 Exchange Plaoe,
Hew York.
Dear Sir: "
lly v/ife and family left last evening by your, r,oad for
Buffalo. A week or more prior to her .departure she engaged hef,- ,
sleeping car aocomodations .through the ticket agent here in .Orange,
v/ho informed her that he had engaged for her sections, 9, 11 and .J£.
and the drawing room, in car 1, 9 p. M. train, July 15th. , ,,,
Upon inquiring for these in Hoboken last evening she found.,
that section 9 had been sold to another party., The agerit dn the office
by name, ¥. A. Currie was rather short in hisM^eplies,iand) coUld-not-v. .
r.lve a satisfactory explanation.^, Hrs, Edison ..was very much incop-
vmod by the mistake, carelessness or otherwise of the agents.
I Jits*, to oall your attention to the matter as you doubt-
\~e avotioua to. prevent -all such trouble?, • as w-? are to -
My
IV :
nnno (
the
d«i,8 ; -
tho.t
rr~ea ae q.l:;?,e on Mica arid, commutator bars for machines
. ■ *-«» If you can quote low enough I may be able to place
- 1 th you it tlle Price named for punuhings eight oents and
. . ■ it wilt bring cost to twelve oents and I am afraid
aj>e ;i°iPe to oost more than we can buy them for
-r^-1 Electric whioh is eighteen oents per pound delivered.
Yours truly,
Ticket Agent, D. Xi. & W.
Orange, IT. J.
July 18, 19Q1.
Dear Sir:
-I beg to advise you that Kr. Edison will acoept the seat
which the writer spoke to you about this afternoon, in the observa¬
tion car which leaves Hew York at 10 A, IT. Saturday July 20thffor
Buffalo. He says that if you oan get him a hatter seat it will he
very much appreciated.
Yours truly,
Geo. W. Littleton, Es<L.,
Waldorf-Astoria,
Hew York.
3)ear Sir:
July 18,1301.
Tour favor of the 16th inst. addressed to Mr. -Edison dame
duOy to hand, and in reply I beg to return you herewith the list as
Mr. Edison is away on his vacation and not ejected back until the
middle of August.
Yours truly,
377
E.O. IS. S. #8.
practical Engineer t-o take such natters up and adapt the machinery
for each particular ■ case . If you Intend going into the business
of selling the rolls to the various Companies, a first class
practical mechanical engineer should he employed by the Syndicate
who 7rf.ll devote all his time to this work and the American Company
will be very glad to furnish all plans- and details to him at cost.
My advice, however, is not to waste either time or money
in peddling machinery, but work only on a large scale; for instance,
there is the 'Portland- cement matter to be worked up.
Mr. Ball ant ine will go to England With magnetite
separator, hematite separator, dust cleaner and with full supply of
Dander land ore already to make l«'<tr.»
The Edison Ore Milling Syndicate , Ltd. ,
4, 7, Aaberley House,
Norfolk Street, Strand,
Dear Sirs:-
London,W.G.
JWly 19,1901.
Youra of the 29th ul 'a. answering Mr. Dick's telegram
iskiug: "’Why do you not pay Edison's bills for work done" is fully
noted.
It is our practice at the Laboratory to render bills
without profit, as cash is paid out weekly, we always expect
the tills be paid promptly. Will you please arrange at the neat
meeting of your board that they give the proper officers authority
to promptly pay bills for work authorized.
Yours truly,
July 20, 1901,
W. L. Edison, Esq.,
Bernards ville , H. J.
Bear Si. ;
Your telegram of the 19th inst, addressed to your father
came duly to hand, and in reply I beg to state that he started this
morning for a vacation and will not be baok until some time around the
middle of August. If you want to oome out on Wednesday with the Pootor
and have him see me, let me know and I will be here. T/hat I oan not
understand is why Dr. Jones has to bring an assistant with him.
I have written Dr. Jones stating that your father has gone
away ,:r a vacation and is not expected back urtil the middle of August,
and no doubt will near fro?-, ou in regard to the appointment for
Wednesday.
Yours truly,
C ,/f
387
View York. '
Dear Sir : -
Koplying ■'' yowru of the 19 ta inst., I beg herewith to
end “i.-at- etrt haste or costs baaed on an output cf 10,000
barrel r ~-T cement ps* day of twenty-four houre. You v.ill note, on
page four '.vs figure it Is' possible to make cement at about twenty
cents (20) per barrel not bagged or barrelled. To this amount
you may add whatever you .think necessary to cover the Innumerable
contingencies! which may arise and cost money. - " **V
Second- Statement giving expenditures to April ljlJBCl,
and estimate cf the cost necessary to. complete the plant -qp tb a
oapftoity of 4 COO barrels per day. This shows where tie $«CX>,006
will be used. It is the intention to further increase the
Cipaoity of the plant in units of 1500 barrels from kLb eithnlhfcs,
tote A Mk£*sm capacity of 10, OCX) barrels Is reK&fed.
ttHTrdi- A ethttettdht giving the list of ifitbiflsholdbf s the
Iw^airiy as of April C3rd,1901«
Fourth- A copy of latter written bylkr. fltdittNito one of
our ^i^-^ctora stating why a further oe&B. of Wei idbiiirdbtLfei
we alee beg* herewith to enclose letted of itftfodho’tibb: 4b
July 24, 1901,
Tfcu T,r ■■ i.rr-v. Trust. Co..
198 ."...•ntacuB St.,
BrooJfl, v, Y.
Dear oira:
Kindly advise me what rate you will make me a four months
loan for $10,000 secured by Twenty (20) 5^ gold bonds of the Edison
Phonograph Works, par value $1,000 each. You have made two or three
loana to mo previously on this collateral.
I beg herewith to enolose you a statement showing the
financial condition of the Phonograph Works.
Yours very truly,
:r?.T ac£T
-fsacr;
S% TIJBOl
laonoxH
t ''Btisol
ionsnil
391
rKMJSira of assets and liabilities
for ■
iear eriUnj March 1, 1899.
CAPITAL STOCK $600,000.
Cash and Accounts Receivable
Machinery and Tools,
Real Estate and Buildings, in-
oluding Furniture and Fittings,
viator ials, -raw, finished and in
process of manufacture
Manufacturing Bights wider oon-
models» drawings, stock in
other concerns, etc. etc.,
Bonds (5$ Gold),
Mortgage ,
Accounts find Notes Payable,
Total ,
Assets over Liabilities,
Warnings ,
LIABILITIES
$300,000.00
16,666.67
25.533.48
$902,018.47
$342.200.15
$559,818.32
$ 84,097.85.
392
T n.OOl
goficrM .
ertflol
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AMD LIABILITIES
for
Year ending March 1, 1900,
CAPITAL STOCK $600,000.
Cash and Accounts Receivable,
Machinery and Too 1b,
Real Estate and Buildings, in¬
cluding Furniture and Fittings,
Materials — raw, finished and in
process of manufacture,
Manuf act tiring Rights under con¬
tract, models, drawings, stock in
other ooncerns, etc. etc.,
$ 81,301.79
307,957.93
Total ,
Totp.l ,
Assets over Liabilities
Earnings ,
LIABILITIES
$300,000.00
74,701.85
$989,891.73
$574.701.85 .
$615,189.88.
$102,618.39.
Woods Motor Vehicle Co.,
51 B. 44th Street,
Hew York.
Dear Slrs:-
Your man was with us the middle of last week and took
our carriage apart and left, stating he would return the day follow
lag or send some one. Dp to thia writing we have Been or heard
nothing from him.
This carriage is used in going from our Works here
to the new Works at Glen Bidge and we are much inoonvenienced hy
not having the use of it, and would appreciate it if you would send
us the new parts; in case •'■our man cannot come out, we will have our
people put them in.
425
JV7
Aug. 5, 1901.
V/, TO. j'awison, Esq. s
pro apt i- 1 Park Hotel,
Catskill, IT. Y.
Dear Will :
I -beg to advise yau that there was a party called here at
the Laboratory and offered to give ua $60 for the bit oh and all of
the pups. (8) Will you sell them at that price or shall we carry
out your instructions and send the seven pups to the ITew York Dog
Exchange and keep one here for you.
An early reply will greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
457
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison,
Sudbury, Ont.,
Canada.
Madam:
Your letter in regard to pony came duly, to hand, and in
reply '£ beg to state that Thomas has looked all around for a pony
and lias only been able to find one for the price mentioned ($100.)
>V very fine looking pony but he is not safe' for Master Charles
•• -^,-,2 ivoulfl not advise our purchasing him.
At present j do no1.; think you will be able to get a pony
, iiiKX:. as ail the ponies which Thomas has looked at are from
■■' C." t« $200. M vm Li, ..;=ep or. lookirg around and if we find a good
: Jlf/ por the price, we v/ilJ purchase him, but if we do not, we will
where we can buy the best pony for the least money and await
yw,u- arrival here so you can look at the pony and be satisfied with
the price before pur chasing same.
Trusting this will meet with your approval, I remain,
Yours truly,
w & tv * - ■
LMa.^1 Wv 31- 1*101
VY9 a'x*J 2j// lfy-
/ 2-3 ibw tk
%Uw % Lrfo.
lOtam
*$u. hvjdLy 4a ^LnA^y j-cum'/ <fj_. ’.U\su 1<] '^tAyvth, $ 4fe^ to o4al&
^fcflcJrs tkb 6zn,a.' <&oL.ZOn (?crf4^C**ycb (Jyi^ASd^ (ctuyjayu^/
QAv far. jf. (? iuaacIlmA' fa", i. lyiaMcrji . U* (/hiucUvU), 9?. $.
(ft (Masac^ fF/iSLOLQAAJWxj' &asx.cL/ (ft- (■ (jioaacJ' iaaieJcu^j, c^dU r~thavu
OlcL dbvlAAJ AA> thl ft'i'j. cj •.'.'.) fd/.JjjcLu »A^, , (P&4*~J '■
A crwi/L Hf '
ftft^i^nouz Q . (doLM
476
iLur ieUSr and cue-pies received. I will have them
tested. I understand that Ketnllic Hiokel is found in Oregon in
Josephine county and called “ Jo sep3a nits'* I am in the market for a
jiood nickel deposit; oan not you pan along the streams and find out
the rocks where the Josephinite cames from. If you could locate the
mine and it could he profitably worked, I might he able to make you
a good proposition „ I know of the deposit in Riddles, Oregon hut the
grade is low and there is no good process, hut the Josephinite could
he easily worked.
Your a truly,
482
Mrs. W. L. 13(119011,
1 beg to enclose you herewith letter received from
Vfcu 33. Titus, Ba3kenridge, H. 1. in regard to a grocery bill. I would
like very much if this bill is correot, if you will have Mr. Ylilliam
•fix it up, as this man has written several times, and the first
thing we know he will, call here to see Mr. Edison and if he does he
will surely make trouble, v.-r.i.', ;• Lelut-n un.:l ur;^ 1 *■-
Anything you can do to fix this up will be very much
appreciated. ,
Yours truly
Sep. 4, 1901.
497
Prudential Bldg . ,
Newark, H. J.
Bear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 22nd ult., I heg to state
that I think we better not trouble Twombly. They do not seem to
appreciate our efforts and start accusing us instead. Let them look
out for themselves.
E. P. Earle , E3q.. ,
29 Liberty St.,
“ar . you. - « — - »W. X ~ - ■“*
MU. Mi - n* “PE
tion.
/O
J • H. Winslow, EBq. ,
o/o Sweet, DempBter <* Co.,
Chicago, Ill.
Sear sir:
I have just received, yours of August 6th. Erash process
may he all right hut there is evidently something wrong with hiB
Company as the mine they were operating and which I visited at
Sudhury shut down two weeks before 1 arrived. They had a very good
body of 4^ ore; of course the Oregon proposition is quite a different
one.
Yours truly,
4
Letterbook, LB-067
This letterbook covers the period September 1901 -March 1902. Most of
the correspondence is by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters
by Walter S. Mallory, John V. Miller, and others. Many of the items relate to the
planning and construction of the Edison Portland Cement Co. plant at
Stewartsville, New Jersey. There are also numerous letters concerning the
technical and commercial development of Edison’s alkaline storage battery and
Edison's search in the Sudbury district of Ontario and other locations for sources
of nickel for his battery. Also included are letters regarding the erection of an iron
ore concentration plant in the Dunderland region of Norway, in connection with
the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd., as well as other items pertaining to
Edison's interest in ore milling, mines, and ores. There are also a few letters
dealing with the domestic phonograph business and the defunct Edison United
Phonograph Co. Among the items relating to family and personal matters are
several letters to Kermit Roosevelt regarding an exchange of autographs
between Edison and Theodore Roosevelt, correspondence with Herman E. Dick
concerning Edison's health problems, and a letter to Thomas C. Martin about
Edison's etheric force experiments in 1875.
The label on the front cover contains the following notation: "Personal
Letter Book of Thomas A. Edison Sept. 5, 1 901 to March 13,1 902." There is a
label on the spine with similar information. The book contains 500 numbered
pages and an index. Approximately 25 percent of the book has been selected.
Sep. 7, 1901.
Postmaster,
Orange, N. J.
Pear Sir:
Will you please have kept out of my box letters^for the fol¬
lowing persons find, have them delivered hy the carriers at my house
in Llewellyn Park, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison
Miss Madeline Edison
Master Charles Edison
Mary I’laherty
Thomas Conroy
Mrs. Thomas Conroy
Master Theodore Edison
Jennie Searles
Catharine Gorham
Michael Cox
Olcott. Payne, Esq.,
237 Burke Bldg.,
Seattle, Washington.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 5th Inst., I beg t0 ,tal.
«.at I suppose you refer to the Silioate of Motel deposits of
Oregon and Washington, If j have a great amount or data re¬
garding them hut so far the grades are too low for e.mm.roial
working compared to the Canada deposits. I would, however, like
data as 1 Intend sending a man out neat summer to visit this el...
of mines.
Yours truly,
Sep. 12, 1901.
Cruoible Graphite Co.,
141 Broadway,
New York.
Dear Sirs:
In reply to your favor of the 11th inst., I heg to state
that I am looking up two other properties and later on I may call
on you in regard to Calumet deposit.
Yours truly,
Sep. 12, 1901.
Submerged Electric Motor Co.,
Menoraonie ,
Bunn Co . , Wis.
Dear Sirs:
In reply to your favor of the 6th inst., I heg to state
that I have not forgotten the submerged motor and when the time
comes I shall order some for Florida. We are erecting works here
for manufacturing the battery. The special tools alone cost
$160000.00, so you see it would be impracticable to license.
Yours truly,
Messrs. Evans & Co.,
Et, Myers, Fla.
Dear Sirs:
In reply to your favor of the 7th inst., I beg to state
that there is a party at Marco who is now building a house boat
for a man in Newark. The Marco man made the plan, its the address
of this man that I^would like to get. If any of your local men
will submit plans with price would be glad to take the matter up.
The boat is merely a flat boat, to draw not more than
18" of water, with upper and lower deck, four sleeping rooms with
upper and lower berths in each, a sitting room on top deck or
otherwise a kitchen, water closet, bath room, awning on top deck or
canvass.
This boat is to be towed about by a small Launch.
Thos. W. C-ihBon, Esq. ,
Director of the Bureau of Mines,
Toronto, Canada.
Dear Sirs
Maps received, for whioh receive my thanks. They will
he of great aid to me. I have navl2 prospectors at Sudbury and
next Summer will put on 24 additional.. I think you have a very rich
mineral Country.
Yours truly,
Louis T. Grant, Esq.,
Hotel Imperial,
Broadway & #2nd St.,
Hew York.
Bear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 6th Inst., I beg to state
that I am fitting up to test your motor. As to guarantee I think
that if I guarantee on Jan. 1st, sixteen months at the end of
which there will he no depreciation. You should he willing to
assume the balance of the risk.
Yours truly,
J. H. Winslow, Esq.,
o/o Sweet, Dempster & Co.,
Chioago, Ill.
Dear Sir:
I am just at present negotiating with some owners of
.'V.: mines at Sudbury, Canada with a view of working the same on
a royalty basis. I have personally visited them and can calculate
rather olosely the cost of producing' Nickel therefrom. The royalty
asked is one dollar per ton of ore from the mines and a minimum
of 100 tons daily. The ore assays 3.78 per oent Nickel some cobalt
and 1/2 per cent Copper. The only reason I hesitate is the large
minimum tonnage required, the presence of Copper and Cobalt and
the necessity of building a wagon road six miles to the property.
If it was not so late in the season I would go out to Riddles
myself and look over the deposits. I believe I could devise a
cheaper process for the Silicate ore than the Sudbury one and the
bother of Copper -eto. would be eliminated, however, I shall not make
any arrangement-. ?..;-e Spring and perhaps I will go out to Riddles
then. What is the earliest date fair, weather sets in and snow is
off at Riddles. If not too much trouble would like your caretaker
to send me a barrel of moderate grade by freight. I am working
with the ore you sent me and. this will not last much longer. While
my primary purpose is only to obtain Nickel for my battery and not
#2. J. H. W.
for sale. I would in case a good process was obtained probably
go into the market on a large scale.
Yours truly,
MM
James S. Biery, Bsq. ,
Attorney at Law,
Allentown, Pa.
Dear Sir:
Sep. 14, 1901.
In reply to your favor of the 5th inst
that I would like very much to have you give me
party who bought the graphite Mine.
Yours truly,
. , I beg to state
the address of the
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Sep. 14, 1901.
D. L. Mo Lean, Esq.,
Ottawa, Ont.,
Canada.
Dear Sir:
Yours of Aug o 20th at hand. I have been out in. the woods
at. Sudbury and find the letter on ray return. to Orange, II. J. I
have visited nearly every nickel Mine in the distriot and am pretty
well informed. If you will Btate the name and location of the mine
I will write ray men to examine it. They will remain in Sudbury
district until Dec. 1st.. I do not intend to produce Nickel for
sale in the market, "but for use in :my new Storage Battery and would
prefer to work a mine on a royalty per ton basis, with a^guarantee
minimum tonnage yearly to hold the mine. I have several proposi¬
tions already in this basis. The deciding factors will be grade '
cheapness of mining and proximity to railroad and terms.
Yours truly,
25
J f
J . Hall Jr,, Esq.,
Sec. Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, ltd.,
London, England.
Dear Sir:
Will you Please write Mr. Lehman to make a lot of good,
photographs of mines, river, falls, also at Mo, harbor, etc. not
only for our information here hut use in prospectus.
2nd. I think you should use Consul Pierson for purpose of getting
opinions of prominent Geologist in Norway and Sweeden as to the
greatness of the deposit, etc. for embodying in the prospectus
ITorj odenskolds opinion if now living would carry great weight.
You should have Turritini rewrite his report on the water
power, bringing out simply the value and amount of available horse
power at the Benfossen and to make estimates of costs for 10, 20 and
40,000 horse power or maximum the falls will give and to give as
glowing a report as to reliability, cheapness of utilization of this
power that the truth will permit.
Would like London office to collect all data now, so
it can be ready for our estimates in relation to costB F. 0. B.
Scotch Blast Furnace or other pitch, also coal tar in tankB from
which the valuable material has been distilled off, leaving still
a liquid tar used for softening the pitch, also freight rates to
Mo of same. Also soft coal prices F. 0. B. at cheapest port and
Sep. 16, 1901.
#2. j. h. .Jr.
freight to Mo., analysis and quality of coal.
r Lehmn must come over with Railroad Engineer loaded with
labor and supply data, costs, etc. All the estimates will he
made here at Laboratory. .
Magnets and men go direct to London on 18th Sept.
Yours truly,
T. I. Crane, Esq.,
Girard Bldg.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Sep. 16, 1901.
Pear Mr, Crane:
In reply to your favor of +>,« "
.. . _ . x the 13th inst-» I teg to state
that I was at Stewartsville all day ian+ „ * „
cay last Saturday, but will try
and go 7/ith you next Saturday.
Yours truly.
Lx
Sep.
16, 1901.
W. S. Pilling, Esq. ,
Girard Bldg.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Mr. Pilling:
We have had a fair run on Roaster and can do 40 hhls.
per hour on 90 lhs. of Coal. With the 50 ft. extension which will
go on to replace the 35 ft. we took off before our last run, we
shall I think when things are running smooth get between 40 and
50 hhls. on a coal consumption of 75 lhs. being 15 lhs. more than
I thought.
We have decided to move roaster to Stewartsville, erect
it just as it is to work and finish our test there. We have got
about all the results we want.
Yours truly,
?■'
Sep. 17, 1901.
Trustcott Boat 1'ifg . Co.,
St. Joseph, Mioh.
Bear Sirs:
I want a boat for use in Florida with steam engine and
•boiler, the later to burn pine wood, coal oan not he obtained
where boat is to be used: This boat is to be used to tow a small
house boat from point to point and to visit nearest points of supply for
provisions. Boat should not draw over 24 inches, the less the better;
6 miles or even 5 miles hour will answer. I also want tv/o'very light
row boats for fishing away from house boat.
Please give me your idea of what is necessary, with
any photos and information with prices F. 0. B. all complete.
Yours truly
Sec. Edison Ore Killing Syndicate, Ltd.,
Tills will introduce to you Hr. James Ballentlne who has c
to London to take charge of the Kagnetic Separator. I have pal'd hi
salary up to Oct. 1st 1901 and from that time until he returns to
my Laboratory he should be paid a salary of one hundred and seventy
five dollars per month and expenses.
I beg to enclose you herewith my four months note for
8.510.00, also my check for §020.00, the same to take care of ray note
and thanking you very much for the accomodation, I remain,
Dominion Mineral Co.,
Montreal,
I already have several propositions from owners of Hickel
properties to permit me to work them on a royalty "basis per ton with
a guaranteed amount of royalty per year. The amount of royalty
per ton of smelting ore has been set at $1 "by nearly all the ,
parties, the only question is xx the minimum cassh sum to be paid
annually to hold the lease, the same to be allowed in ore at
One dollar. The minim'
1 of the different owners varies fror
$3,000 to $20,000 yearly. After I have received an approximate
idea of the requirements of the different owners, I will be in a
position to decide which proposition will be most advantageous,
taking railroad facilities, grade of ore, ease of mining, etc. into
In the case of the Worthington, I should want included
the whole of the property of the Company at and about Worthington.
[ have surveyed the property magnetically and find that there are 3
Lenses of ore in the 2 miles and that the gossan connecting these
3 lenses is only indicative that they are connected together by a
small stringlet of ore not possible to work. I could not avail
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Nickel Copper Co.,
Hamilton, Ont.,
Canada.
C-entlemen:
I am at present negotiating with several Nickel mine owners
in ".he Sudbury District with a view of - working a mine on a royalty
per ton basis, with a guaranteed minimum sum per annum to hold the
lease f all have agreed upon a basis of one dollar per ton of smelting
ore, but there is a great variation’ in the minimum amount of
money to be paid yearly to hold the lease, the same to be paid for
in ore when mined. The variation is from $3,000 to $20,000 yearly.
I would like an expression on your part if you would lease any of
your mines so that I can be enabled to figure out the most at¬
tractive, property, as to ease of mining, quality of ore, proximity
of railroad, etc. I have personally visited most of the mines,
except of the Northern Range.
/
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Yours truly,
IsjfofK
elineO
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I send .you a roughly drawn contract, which would he about
the right thing. I have asked for about all the land worth surveying.
The Commissioner may be aghast at the amount, but I think my twenty
four .men can cover it within the s^x months. By the terms of the
contract I must immediately lease permanently or release at once
each lot immediately after surveying it. I think I can release
about 30 full lots every month and perhaps more; there is about
190 lots, so its rather fair. I think there would be no objection
to a clause whereby the Commissioner could on giving ’30 days notice
abrogate the lease or any part of it if any trouble came from it,
but the ground has been so well prospected and the area I apply for
is mostly deeply covered and can not be prospected except by Magne¬
tic needle, that I do not fear any trouble. ,
Do you think that, there should be a nominal consideration
given say $500 or do you think the consideration I give is sufficient,
namely; making a magnetic survey of the territory rapidly and in a
proper manner furnishing copies of the survey to the Geological
Dept, and taking up and paying regular prices for lots or portion
of lots upon which minerals are discovered.
Yours truly,
Thomas T. (Jaunt, Esq.,
11 West 36th St.,
New York.
Deal* Sir:
I "beg to acknowledge reoeipt of your check for $1,000,
being part payment for $5,000 worth of bonds of the Edison Storage
Battery Co. and when the full amount- $5,000 is paid as called for
I agree to give you twenty five shares of the capital stock of th<
Edison Storage BatteiyCo.,
59
Sep. 25, 1901,
H. E.‘ Dick, Esq.,
154 Lake St.,
Chicago, Ill.
My Dear Dick;
Your favor of the 21st inst. came duly to hand, -and in' reply
I Leg to state that Ballentine has gone, hut the railroad fail-ed to
deliver the goods to steamey so they will go next .Saturday. I
.should say that he will not have separator ready before five weeks
from this date, so you will he in time if you leave in a month. We
can learn hy oahls when he will he ready.
In one month I can have' estimates of Millsand if Lehmann
and railroad engineer shows up, we ought to have every thing estimated
hy Oot. 10th.
Yours
truly,
Sep. 25,1901.
/ /
J. P. Gilliland, Rsq. ,
Adrian, Mi oh.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 18th inst., I beg to state
that I would not reoommend any charging set using gasolene, I think
coal oil is the best and vfliat I think is far preferable is coal. Re¬
garding my storage battery, I beg to state that I do not care to give
out any information in regard to same until my factory is completed
to manufacture it.
Yours truly,
1/
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Sep. 25,1901.
U» S. Automobile Co.,
Attleboro, Mas3.
Dear Sirs:
In reply to your favor of the 18th inst.., I beg to state
that wd are not yet ready to put our batteries upon the market.
and
soon
are we will let you know.
Yours truly,
Edi!
aon Ore Milline Syndicjjj>«^‘i,td. , j
7 Amber ley Hoyj»6^Horf>^ St.,/ . '
London, V. C.» Englfnd.
Dear Sirs: ,
I beg to enclose you herewith statement of Toy account
amounting to $6768.07. Kindly sehd check by return mail,
and greatly oblige,
Youre truly.
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X Tj«c to enclose you herewith my check for §66.67, and.
m place of- same jvlease send me draft on Berlin payable to the
order of Mrs. liar ion 35. Oeser, and greatly oblige.
Yours truly,
fL a '■
fleo. Edison Ore Killing .Syndicate, Ltd.,
London, England.
Bear Sir:
X bee to enclose you herewith copy of "a letter given m<
* ‘ir* TjR'7r<,nCe 0:5 Sep* 10th»# authorizing me to spend §15,000 on
- briquetting plant (ovens etc). Will you kindly have
r-nr to.wany confirm same by letter, and
Youre trul
greatly oblige,
IS
Sep. 30,1901.
(t?
0. S. Automobile Co.,
AUtleboro, Mass ,
Dear Sirs;
In reply to your favor of the 26th inst., 1 beg to Btate
that the machine works will he completed by Deo. 1st and the chemical
works hy Jan. ist as far as I can see. Our capacity at first will
te 25 automobile batteries daily, but we can rapidly increase the
output when we are once Btarted.
Yours truly,
C. Ri Chrisholm, Esq. ,
Murray Hill Hotel,
Hew York.
Sep. 30,1901.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 2.5th inst., I beg to Btate
that I remember you very well. I have no experience in financiering,
having always attended to the technical end of my enterprises.
Yours truly,
no graph Co . ,
A. K. Keller, Sag..,
e/o Frank iT. Os nun , P< nr.
19 South 9th St,, Philadelphia', Pa. ■ ■
Pear Kellers
Your letter of the 2nd received, and in reply I beg to state
that the machinists which v/e advertised for are for night work, and
the pay is only $2.50 per night and is only a temporary position and
iot a position which'you would want. Trusting you are well and in
good luck, I remain,
Yours truly,
0 ^
Oct. 8, 1901.
Killie B. Corby,
80 Washington St.,
Bloomfield, IT. 1.
In reply to your favor of the 1st inst., I beg to
state that I do not care to purchase any property near Glen Ridge.. .
Thanking you for cali ing my attention to same, I remain,
Yours
101
W. 3. Horthrop, Esq.,
150 Nassau St.,
New York.
E-ar Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 9th inst., I beg to state
that you can come out arid see me any time on Tuesday.
Yours truly,
Edison Portland Cement Co.,
Girard Bldg.,
Philadelphia, Pa. •
Sear Sirs:
I heg to enclose you herewith my check for $2125.04, the
•3W.-0 being on account of my subscription for preferred stock in your
Company . Kindly place same to my credit and acknowledge receipt, and
greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
bummer , viaosun&ry will commence tc
r> during the Winter as the buildings will
time the other shovels are at work making
o you see by this plan we work continuously,
on at Mo '.n the same manner,
machinery and everything, the Kill could
but my experience is that it will be
ousand and one things required in time, and
1 be consumed,
sturn here as soon as he can without neglecting
13 ^
ing Syndicate, ltd.,
ie, Norfolk tat . ,
. C. , England.
Ij* reply to your favor of the 17th Inst., I beg to state
■dinary rod with u good we I; ground connection will protect
ng .from lightning.
Yours truly,
Oct. 22, 1901.
•no,
Iain Si:.,.
•Ikes Sarre, Pa.
reply to your f-vor of the 12th inst., I beg to state
oi a dry proeebs. The Poxores gravel will not average
or cuhic yard, although represented as containing forty
Yours truly,
irreoi'ondence with a Mr. Kyan„
aro truthful this v/ould he a »
snow comes for you to i
no,.e the rjosson width appearances and everythinr;, and alBO make
i? 00 (^survey pretty close readings; then I will he in a position
" CX ^ots4<M
Kr- J • c. Ryan, '
Soho Group of Mines,
Kaslo, British Columbia.
You are correct a.s to royalty. If the property is fauna
satisfactory and accepted by ire, I am to pay 50 cents per ton
royalty, on all ore taken out; if in any year less than 4000 tons
is extracted, you are nevertheless to receive §2,000, but I am to
receive a credit so I can reimburse myself by taking ore at 50
cents per ton at another time, for any money paid in a minimum.
I have ordered my men to proceed to your mine and see
what there is of it. You did not state what price you would take
in cash for the mine and insert the option in the lease.
Yours very truly, — ' — >
Nov. 9, 1901,
'ff- B. Esq.,
4; t ^ rtaandt St. ,
5*evv York.
B>ear Si*,,
if- J'eP1lr to your favor of the 29th ult., I beg to state
that we , ^/e finished experiments on our kiln at the Laboratory
and it, ^ ow at the cement Works. We expect . the works to he
running ^ Pe'o. when you can get data.
Yours truly,
Vf
ITov. 9, 1901.
•T . Weslaj, ^>li son, Eaq. ,
Ave. & 44th St.,
New York,
My hear ison:
j beg to return you herewith the letter which you sent
me from Roberts. Thanking you very much for sending me same,
I rental**
' Yours truly.
161.
4»iv, A. Croatia , Bsq. ,
•1&5 E. 140 Rt.,
Hew York.
ar Sir:
Robert A. Pranks, Esq,
ranks, Jiisq* ,
Your favor of the 12th inst. also
, Llewellyn Park,
;U||J tn 'jr'<T>ly I beg -
Orange, IT. J.
i ask what is the largest
I’oy.lo ,1901.
curie duly to
size that you
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor “(& \%e1;6th inst . , I beg to state
that the current is from my Laboratory and was supplied to Mr.
Auchincloss on account of being a good neighbour; I believe you
are going to be his equal so J will continue jam the practice.
Hv Book-keep'er tells/me the charge iB 3 A, cents per
" f ]
lamp hour. I wo>nl<i' bevglad to have you pome down and see >
I am at my Lai
li^ratory neai^y>«v‘ery day. j /
,.>-rt^:JA^^Yours truly,
S*"
■"I
c/o Grand Union Hotel,
Hew York ,
tear Sir:
In ’■•lily to your ruvor 0f th. 7th lnot.
** W 0W » » *»»««tory „ Orange, w ,
• I would advise you to call up on th«
:l here. liy telephone cull iB
1 teE to state
time. Before coming
cl one so as to be •
K. J.
that 1 :
. Or
Yourn truly,
Thomas
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T. Gaunt,, JSsij. ,
l.'l. V/eat 36 th fit.,
New York.
hear Sir:
I beg to advise you that call number th
lnUde lhe Sdison Storage Company upon the , sub so
that Company, the same to be paid on or before »e
V/ill you kindly send me your chock for
subscription $500.00, and greatly. obliee,
Yours truly,
Mr. J. t. Dusenbery, Secretary,
Hudson .& Essex Gas Co.,
575 Hroad St. ,
lTewark,N..T.
Dear Stri-
Mot.25,1901.
Confirming conversation had with your representative,
beg to state that we are at present using gas ■©rmn your Company at
my laboratory , also at the Edison Phonograph Wprjc' a plant, and we
have decided to use gas in our iron furnaces at the new Works of
the Edison -Storage Battery Company, Silver laie,l.r.J.
5he Laboratory, I ov/n personally, and own t he controlling
stock in the other two Companies. I understand that yqu -are
willing to-nsfce one contract covering the three departments with one
of 'the* Companies , so that we may obtain the benefit of your schedule
of •discounts.
Kindly advise a? to this immediately, as as soon as we
hear from you, we will start equipping the Furnaces at Silver lake
for gas, instead o^^oal.
Yours very truly,
25, 1901.
H. Vol;<.-»ann, Eaq. ,
5 .5. 3 1 . ,
gp York.
Do ar Sir:
Tn reply to your favor of the 22nd inst., I fee;; to stat
that Mr. Y/hltridge is of the i’inn Of Carey & YThitridge, They
represent a party who put. a lot of money in the Edison United
Phonograph Co* and also loaned Mr. Searlee and Moriarity money.
They have been told all kinds of stories hy Moriarity
"and I told Whitridge to go and see you and get the actual facts.
318.00'
In view of the numerous cases of Smallpox that Wtve
developed through the Oranges, we have decided that it 1b very
necessary that all employees who have not teen vaccinated within a
period of two years prior to this date shall arrant for proper
vaccination on or before Dec. 11th.
We shall expect each and every employee to furnish a
proper certificate by Dec. 11th, 1901, showing that vaccination
has taken place within the two years, above mentioned.. We feel that
every precautionary measure should be taken by our eiqployeeg.
Arrangements have been made with Dr. J. Mincj ^aghee, of
West Orange, to vaccinate any of our employees who may wish it,
between the hours of 4 and 6 P. M. every day at the price of Fifty
cento (50/) each.
Any employees desiring -co he vaccinated at the Works, will
please notify Mr. Devonalfi before the noon hour each day. --
ns
New York.
Dec. 12,1901.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 5th inst., I heg to state
that you are mistaken about Sudbury ore increasing in value as they
go down. Wherever Magnetic Pyrites are found the top assay determines
the quality.
Regarding the property, I «• “» *'r «"”* 01 ’ ^
„m P„dly poy to nor* hnt n.nld li» « «« 1“”
and th.ro «. plenty of ..oily mined and then X night
gamble a little with it.
Yours truly,
In reply to your favor of the 7th Inst., I beg to state
that Einfcel is a fair Corliss Runner, not much above the regular
run of- plain engineers. He is good natured.
If I had your plant I would want a better man then Rinkel.
Yours truly,
$)VYY\OJi. Cl Fcl^errx
Mr* S. Johnson,
Sudbury, Ont.,
Canada.
Pear sir:
x oeg to enclose you herewith copy of a letter sent you
on Hov. 29th. Up to the present time neither Mr. Edison or I
have received an answer to same. Kindly answer as soon as possible,
and greatly oblige,
Youtb truly.
u
Jl
T. O0 Daniel, Esq.,
30 Broad St.,
Hew York.
y
Dear sir:
In reply to your favor of the 13th Inst., I would ask that
you formulate exactly what you propose to do, capital of company,
scheme of operation, methods, basis of consolidation and other
data, without this things are too much in the air to oome down to
detail and prices on my part.
National Shoe & Leather Bank,
271 Broadway,
New York.
Deo. 17, 1901.
Dear Sirs:
In regard to the enclosed postal oard, we beg to state
that according to our check book the deposit made by us was #20,000
and #3500. Will you kindly let us know if we are correct, and oblige
Yours truly,
229
"Win. H. Hampton, Esqi,
Placer, Ore.
Dear Sirs —
The samples received j^except JoBephinitjjl/aontain a trace
of Nickel. Judging from the Magnetic sand and Josephinite, the later
is bo rounded that it probably came from a distant part. It looks
like as if a Nickel Silicate with Iron had been reduced by forreBt
fires or lightning and erroded and carried along a distance by water.
My impression is that it will not prove a commercial souroe of Nickel.
I thank you very muah for the assistance you have given
Mr. Bolitho and hope some time to reciprocate and hope when you
come to New York you will call and see me.
Yours truly,..—-- ^
nsoeteber 23,1901
Httsx &. «Ud*on Qas «J*mpany,
Oear SiP5*-
^vjpra of the whisfetwaw d*ai*«r*4
V *rf<tt*lm, *«f ieg to *»*# thn,t your mpjtfHeaU*4* «*
Ba«**y Oomi^py at *t*ver 'Sb*tl *£«
39P* # nH less th*a *hree- INf^. dut^^bti^
-|pb Wife the l-*t SOO.O^^ ^W
Ik «gfl«rwrtiMT ■ . ..
JU ■RlTlril um«1»As cudkofc by Mr. B*faMie£&» 1$5 -to «*»*•»
feet 1« to -be us^dt^krtbutp’d over a o« Jjtf
JmdJU# lUJf _ arrangements should be made 1* ypfttl^r up 4fa* VJ46
n|tfrQ_ ^ that there will b* a Unlf or^ Oth^rtsS W
IRtuiniie to Obtain th*fe suits ntu»e^*ay.
IGours -yefir truly,
244
3, tv*' rymanii , Esq. ,
Oudenarder Strasse 23,
Berlin, Germany.
W **** j «
Your favor of the 9th inst. came duly to hand, and in
r, i I "beg to state that if Mr. Bafn runs short, you can advance
^\ixe amount of money mentioned in your letter. Thanking you very
Toi' 3r°Ur kindness, 1 remain»
Yours truly,
Dec. 26,1901.
fa. Clark & Co . ,
75 'S'onge St.,
Toronto, Canada.
r ««• - * »■> *“*•■ 1 ~ “ ;*t.
, ,ro„.11y .»■> w *” “ "J.Vhc that
‘ ^ W Tl.i» your properlt.. 1*
Zp. .tick « »i tM «“ 10 **,r“U”’
Yours truly,
Capt. S’. H. Pollen, - - -
Edison Ore Milling Syndicate Ltd.
London, England.
Pear Sir. ^ aend yQU herewlth l/2 dozen samples of Sunderland
Hematite worked through a speoial process. Please send around, to
our iron friends for assay, especially Conset & Richards, etc. and
let me know what they think.lt will cost 15 cents extra per ton to
do it. YourB truly*
^1^0 4
Messrs. Pilling & Crane,
Philadelphia, Pa.
I send you herewith a sample of a special <
t know what you think of it. Warwick oan do it
James Gayley, Esq.,
71 Broadway,
Hew York.
Dear Sir:
Deo.
26,1901.
I send you herewith a sample of a special iron ore. Please
have it assayed and then' let me know if it would interest you>®)d
Mr. Schwatyif Briquetted. „
Yours truly, _ _
E. J. Haire, EBq. ,
176 Broadway,
Mew York.
Dear Sir:
Deo. 27, 1901.
In reply to your favor of the 26th inst. in regard to a
check drawn By Thomas A. Edison Jr. for #40, I Beg to state that you
will have to look to the young man for the payment of same, ub I
have nothing whatever to do with his affairs.
Yours truly,
Heine Safety Boiler Co.,
11 Broadway,
Hew York.
Bear Sirs:-
Bor the new plant In Norway, we *111 require about 6,000
horse power, (baaed on 30 pounds water) boilers, complete with
automatlo stokers and ferranged for burning bituminous coal.
Will ydu kindly give us approximate prices on your boilers,
stating the size units yon would recommend. Brice of the boilers,
ready for export shipment, f.o.b. New York.
Also give us approximate price. Of thw^sawt per horse power
Jtor erection and about average rertre of *aoor per day on which you
^figure. We will then be able to tell Whether we can erect it
jtf&eaper with our own people in Norway.
Hllllken B ro s . ,
11 Broadway,
New York.
Dear Sirs : -
Replying to yours of the 30th inst., we heg to state that
the plans for the buildings which are to he erected in England
for the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, will he made here at Orange.
Messrs. Packman & Heasman,
Pear Sirs:-
I hand you herewith detailed estimates of the two plants
proposed to he erected at Sunderland and Mo, Norway.
These estimates are based on actual costs obtained from
th. construction of the °«™‘ *>«» «* stmartsvllle, V.S.X. ,
emoloylng building. and nachlnery m slnllor to the. that mold
*/ .„«.d to Kormy. A portico of too plan. ™ contracted out
outside nerbs, coot of nhioh, «
mo.». Th. other portico ho. hem -add the °"»w
it. elf in o Machine Shop, erected and operated by the Company on
trll ground. . Acournt. account, of — « — -
thua I - i. a position to aoour.t.ly e.tin.t. eta.
In tie, of th. fact that the Compmy «g
make „ P- of it. — - «** *
entirely, I have Horn* - eddlt.cn to the antu.1 labor ,
«* and * for fixed charge and profit.
Owing to. the large amount of work now in th
Shop, -a th. relatlv . high price. -
, tly I at under the lmpre..ion that moot of th
" ! - he Obtained nor. cheaply — - * ~
", Ihe.etta.tedooetof«.etmMor..Pl»t.i.
Docks at Mo.
My understanding with the London Syndicate has been that
I should place my Engineering force at the disposal of any
Company which might he forned for working the Norway Iron Deposit
to design, under my supervision, the planted furnish the speci¬
fications at the expense of such Company .^/ ,
I shall, however, retire that 'all work of manufacture
and erection and initial operation shall be in the hjgfls
MSB«fl$°K8pW4er,*y supervision.
Tours very truly, — - - ”
Club Bldg.,
Denver, Colo. ,, -
Dear Sir: S . ■-*- • ' ‘'O ■/-, -
Your favor of the 1st. Inst, came duly to hand, and in
reply X beg to advise you to discontinue putting my ad. in your paper.
I beg to enclose you herwith check in payment of my
account.
Tours truly,
John Healy^sq, ,
lakeside & Wat chung Avon,
Vest Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir:-
We beg herewith to hand you blue -print showing end of
Rotary Kiln which we desire built at the Laboratory.
We expect to have all the material ready the first part
of next week and would be glad to have you give us bid for all the
mason work as shown, including all iron work, as shown.
Yours very truly,
Engineering & Mining Journal, Ino.,
203 Broadway,
I "beg to return you herewith your "bill for $5, the Bane
"being for subscription for your paper from Deo. 1,1901 to Deo. 1,1902.
Please discontinue sending the paper, and greatly oblige,
The Iron Trade Review,
Cleveland, 0.
Dear Sirs:
I beg to return you herewith bill for #3, being subscrip¬
tion for one year from Jan. S, 1902 to Jan. 9, 1903.
Please discontinue bonding me the paper, and greatly oblige
Yours truly,
{Fhuyv >44, Oj ® '
Jan, 8,1902.
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S>» 0. Howard, Esq.,
Cosmos Club,
Washington, D, C.
Dear Sir:
X hereby tender my resignation as a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and return you herewith
bill for dues for the year 1902.
Yours truly,
/6f
Jan. 8,1902.
The Newark Board of Trade,
Newark, N. J.
Dear Sirs:
I hereby tender my resignation as a member of the ''Board.
Yours truly,
Dyer, Edmonds & Dyer
As per your favor of the 6th inst., X heg to enclose
,ou herewith the Power of Attorney duly signed.
Yours truly.
U'antao, Dare Co.,
Boanoke Island, N. C.
Dear Sii . hand, and in reply
Your favor of the 3rd inst. came duly
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send the two together, and e3'63'^^.^ truly, .
Jan.ll, 1902.
fohn Vo Killer, Esq.,
Christiana, Pa,
J 0 0
In reply to your favor of the 9th inst., I hog to advise
you to make a rough survey of the mine and then survey the continu¬
ation of the mine at both ends for say one half mile to see if
there is anything left in old mine and any other deposits along the
290
Dear Sire
We are in receipt of yours of the 31st ult. enclosing
copy of letter from Ur. 0, Ainsworth of the Consett Iron Works
Company which we have forwarded to Ur. Edison, who is very much
pleased withjthe results.
Mr. Edison is away on a vacation of about two weeks and
upon his return he will make further replies to your letter.
Yours very truly,
295
Want so j n. c.
Dear Sir:
I beg to enclose you herewith Bill of lading for the dog
which was shipped yesterday and also heg to state that I had to
Jan. 17,1902.
T, 0. Quinn, Esq.,
N. Y. Daily News,
New York.
Your favor of the 16th inst. with enclosure came duly to
hand and in reply I leg to state that at present Mr. Edison is away
and not expected baok for several weeks. On his return your
lot ter will be placed before him.
Yours truly,
(j AnuU. ,
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V. Miller, Eaq.,^^ f „ i j
Gerogetown, A R"0""
Lancaster Co., Pa.'s^*/
In reply to your favor of the 12th inst., I beg to state
that Mr. Edison is going away J
several weeks and he says -that
you "better return to the Laboratory and wait until he returns and
he will talk the matter over with you.
Yours truly,
n r/\ n) . / ;;
Kermit Roosevelt, Esq.,
White House,
Washington, D. C.
Your favor of the 13th inst. came duly to hand, and in
reply I beg to state that at present Mr. Edison is away and not
expected baok for several weeks. On his return the autograph' will
be sent you.
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John M, Wood, Esq.,
171 Broadway,
New York.
Bear Sir :
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On the dates Below I sent you policies as follows:
"ay Slat, 1901.
#10266, lJorthern of London $2500, machinery 5, expires Peb. 20,1902.
#13721, Manhattan^ . ^ $2500, machinery 5, expires Peb,, 28,1902.
July isth, 1901
#22103, Home, on Bldg. 1 at Bellville
Bee. 23rd, 1901
#3535684, Norwich Union $2500, stock Bldg. 5, expires Oot. 15,1902.
r-o5o5688, Norwich Union $2500, Machinery in Bldg. 5, expires Oct. 26, 1902
You have ommited to send me policy #208653 , Philadelphia
Stock in Bldg. 5,
If the above policies are still in force kindly
if they have been cancelled, kindly send me the
and greatly oblige.
send them
amount.
Yours truly.
Jan. 23, 1902.
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My dear Dick:-
„„ „ 1 "rU1,,e w bsr- »«<W1« Mr. Edison, bn,
' boon under tie ...tier lor . day or t.o.
Mr. Edison „ .till e,.y, i„me YorJ( ^ '
... for boMonood; expert i. ,111 return on Monday
’ ‘ * ™0el"d *” ’•* *»* *» >*" »»n of ben.fi, t0
• IW. letter fro. Gaunt tH. .ornlng, ,mtB, thM Kr.
Tm — -i -rt. «r». sausage, etc.
rtthout «, ln.onTenl.no., . oo.bln.tlon uiloh „ua oer,.lnly
bnooi ~ out; so tiluM ti.t il. sto.aoh .net be In »UOi better
shape.
Subsequent examinations confirmed the first that Mr
Edison, outside of il. etosaoh, 1. m splendid ,i.p. „a tie
Bootors stated, tint nlth ordinary osre, i. should u„ traaty.f,T.
or thirty year. longer. I „ sure y„„ rtll t. plea,.a to
this as we were.
Trusting that you had a pleasant trip over and will meet
with great success in your present negotiations, I am,
3fours very truly,
. H .73 . Dick,
c/o Edison Ore Milling Syndicate .It'd. ,
Amberley House, Norfolk St., Strand
Xondon,W.C. ... *
Jan, 27, 1902.
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apartment of Crown Lands,
Toronto, Ont;,
Canada.
paar Sira:
On HOT. 29, 1901, a letter on behalf of Miss Mary E. and
iru M. Miller was Witten you in regard to their applications on
of lots H and 12, Con. 6 of Graham,
As no answer haa been received and they are anxious to have
,ne matter settled as soon as possible, a copy of the above mentioned
letter is enclosed with the request for an early reply
Yours sincerely,
January 30,1902
w/ |
Edison Ore Milling Syndicate , Ltd. ,
Aniberley House, Norfolk St., Strand,
London ,W.O., England.
Replying to yours of the 7th Inst, to Mr. Edison, who
Has fully noted your letter, heg to state, that he requests we
"rite you as follows: "The Idea of the low phosphorus ore, was for
crucible steel and annour plate purposes. The assay should be
.0009 instead of .003. We hare had several analyses made which
show these results, ecjT of course, we realise it is difficult for'
the regular Chemist to work with such small quantities. The mag¬
netite cannot be gotten as low as the Hematite.'
Tours very truly,
January 30,1902.
We have advanced Mr. Simpkin One hundred and fifty dollar e
($150.) for his expenses to London and told him to see you to get
the funds with which to return.
Yours very truly,
I.E.Mok,Bsq. ,
o/o Edison Ore Milling Syndicate , Ltd. ,
Amberley House .Norfolk St., Strand,
January 30,1902.
My dear Dick:-
In connection with the letter that I have given Mr.
Simpkin, relative to advance of money, beg to ask, if the Dunderland
scheme goes through, you will see to it that some arrangement is
made to take care of our cash more promptly than it has been done
in the past . Expenditures that we now make for the account of the
London Company, run for ninety days or more before we receive money
from them, and in the present situation of things, it ties up money
which we oould use, as you know, to the very best advantage in
other directions .
I write you this personally, eo that you will have it
in mind and take it up at the proper time.
I -trust when Simpkin arrives, he will be able to straighten
out the present trouble aiyLhope you will soon meet with great
suooess in putting the Boheme through.
Yours very truly,
H.E.Diok.Esq.,
London, W^C.
Peter i
In reply to your favor of the 17th inst., I hag to state
that I am not Interested verymuoh In Oregon nickel mines, as I
have had considerable experience with the ores. I am more favorably
inclined with the Sudbury ores.
Youtb truly,
Pear Sirt
In reply to your favor of the 4th inst., I beg to state
that I found no platinum in the samples.
Yours truly,'
iaua.YIT.Mr
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Jan. 31, 1902.
Herreshoff Hfg. Co.,
Bristol, R, i.
Dear SirB:
In repay to your favor of the 29th inst., I hee to state
that the engines are for an Iron Concentrating plant in Norway that
will run two shifts of ten hours eaoh. All that they would require
is a good plain engine, giving economy of say 15 to 16 pounds of
steam per horse power. I had supposed that owing to the high speed
of your engine, they would he oheaper than those of other makers.
We have a hid already for Compound Engines of a well
known make at $12 per horse power, including shaft, outerhearing
and hed plate for Dynamo and even this price if greater per pound
of engine than is paid for shop machinery, such as milling machines,
lathes, eto.
Yours truly,
(ft, Pr. .
180 Liberty St„ ,
lie tv York.
Dear Sir:
The etharic force experiments were made in November 1875;
Think the Tribune published them with cuts in that month. A man
named Br. G,; 14 Beard published them in th» Quarterly journal of
Science 'To. lb , April 1876. Sylvanus Thompson published some in¬
vent IgatJ on s regarding the phenomenon in Philasophioal Magazine
5th Series Ho. 2 i'uly to Boo. 1876. The remark made by Sir Wen.
Thompson before Society of Telegraph or Electrical Engineers was
when Keritz paper was read, its in their proceedings. Its strange
T hav’r.t any copies of Tribune or the other publications.
356
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Feb„
4, 1902.
t 'bee to enclose you herewith check for $3150, the eau
dividend on 525 shares of stock of the North American
•tation & Trading Co. whioh belongs to you.
Kindly acknowledge receipt of same , and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
Q- Celwnm. - -
361
The object of this invention iB to produoe an adherent
coating of metallio nickel on iron by electrolytic deposition*
The invention consists in electroplating a thin coating
of nickel on sheet iron or steel, or upon articles made from- sheet
iron or steel in the usual manner, ■ placing such sheets or articles
in a closed ohamber of cast iron or olay retort, passing Hydrogen
gas through the ohamber to displace the air and then subjeot the
sheets or articles to a temperature sufficient to weld the film of
nickel to the iron while the reducing gas is passing, cooling the
retort and contents down below the oxidizing point while still in
the reducing gas and .subsequently removing the same and substitu¬
ting a fresh charge of sheet or articles.
The. temperature necessary is a bright yellow, at which
point the nickel welds to the iron or steel, so that it becomes
integral with it and at the same time the surface of the nickel
becomes very bright. The weld is so perfect that the sheets can be
formed up into various articles by the drawing process, without
cracking or flaking. the film, Which is not the case when the film
has not been subjected to the welding, process. The welding process
serves also to anneal the sheets for the first operation of drawing.
So perfect is the result that cans and dishes made by this process
may be substituted in many cases for tinned .iron plates.
The nickeled articlejs^are in addition more cheaply produced
than those of tined iron, as the thickness of the nickel film is
very much less than the tin on iron.
Claim 1. Hew article of manufacture
" 2. Process
" 3. Articles thus made. ,
When you come over again "bring application in re large
g and mixed with fine sand to screen, also I will tell you more
about this application and we can talk over claims, also do you
want ms to send model battery to England.
Yours truly,
Mo K. Twombly, Eaq.» ,
I "beg to enclose you herewith certificate #B. 1374 for 25
shares of the capital stopk of the North Americi
: Transportation &
Trading Co,, which must belong to you. X also enclose you herewith
the letter which I received with the stook. Kindly acknowledge
receipt of same and return the letter to me when you are through with
it, and greatly oblige, Yours truly,
a.&
. The Veeder Mfg. Co.,
Hartofrd, Conn.
Can you make your #6 Ratohet, Counter so as to be .set
back to 0 after any number of readings, not above 999 have been
registered. I have use for about fifteen in a register -similar to
a conductors punch. It must be handy so that you can handle it
Supt.
Louis Glass, Esq.,
o/o Pacific States Telephone & Teleg. Co.,
San Eranoisco, Cal.
Dear Sirs
In reply to your favor of the 28th ult., I "beg to state
that our factories are not yet finished. Hope to turn first
■batteries out in Maroh. Bacigalupi buys our goods but has no
exclusive agenoy. 'Why dont you take up Bacigalupi and help him
to some capital, we are" financing him but not being on the ground
do not financeto the extent we would if we knew the ground. He
does a large business and if he had ten or fifteen thousand
dollars extra capital, could very much increase it.
Yours truly,
ff'i'S'. 0. •'
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Feb. 7,1902.
Edw„ G. Clark, Esq.,
Westfield, Mass.
Sear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 23rd ult., I beg to state
that there was nothing of any value in the samples.
Yours truly,
ftm a
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Eermit Roosevelt, Esq.. ,
White House,
Washington, D. C.
Hear Sir:
As per my promise made some time ago, I heg to enclose
you herewith two autographs from Mr. Thomas A. Edison. If you
could obtain two autographs from your father for Mr. Edison’s
daughter and son, I would appreciate it very much.
Yours truly.
ft s !
Office of Geological Survey-,
Parliament Bldg.,
Toronto, Canada.
Bear Sira:
Mr. Edison is expecting to again have a party of men
in Canada thiB coming Summer and is accordingly anxious to ob¬
tain all the latest information possible relative to the Sudbury
Bistrict. We understand that a new Geological survey had been
recently carried on. If there are any new geological maps or
publication since last Summer, will you kindly- send us copies
of same, and greatly oblige.
Youtb truly,
Feb. 10, 1902.
Office of the State Survey,
Hartford, Conn.
Dear Sirs:
Will you kindly inform me as soon as possible whether or
not I oan obtain topographical maps, i.e. maps including all roads
and oontour lines of the different counties, especially those about
Litchfield, Co., also if it is possible to obtain a oolored
map of the counties. I should like to have the maps on a scale
of atleast 2 miles to the inch.
Awaiting an early reply, 1 remain,
Yours truly,
Yours truly,
383
Thoa. T. Gaunt, Esq.,
13. V. 36th St.,
TsTaw York.
Dear Sir:
In accordance with the resolution of the Board of Directors
of the Edison .Storage Battery Co., passed on the 10th day of February
1902, a call of 5^ of the amount of the subscription to the bonds
under the agreement of July 11th, 1901 was directed to be made.
You are accordingly requested in accordance with said call
to send your check for 5% of the amount of your subscription to the
Treasurer of the Company oA or before the 3rd day of March, 1902
in accordance with the terms of said subscription. ;
The amount of your subscription is $5000, the amount
payable under this call is $250.
Yours truly,
384
John V. Hiller, Esq.,
Orange, II. J.
Dear Sir:
In accordance with the resolution of the Board of Directors
of the Edison Storage Battery Co., passed on the 10th day of February
1902, a cali. of 5% of the amount of the subscription to the bonds
under the agreement of July 11th, 3.901 was directed to be made.
You are aooordingly requested in accordance with said call
to send your oheok for of the amount of your subscription to the .
Treasurer of the Company on or before the 3rd day of March, 1902
in accordance with the terms of said subscription.
The amount of your subscription is $2000, the amount
payable under this call is $100.
Yours truly i
Feb, 12, 1902,
J; ' , Edison has been carrying on some correspondence with M r,
un, of your city, in reference to his claim on Lot 5 Com. 1, of
e»*v and the matter has reached a •point whore !tr. Johnson says he will
•n; ulah his claim for a certain sum,
7. understood that an application for this lot was made sometime
and a ■’•"■•tain amount 0? work done upon the property by I®*, Johnson
• :r , but no payments made ‘to the Government. Mr, Edison would
. '• ::o.v the full particulars, Just what portions of the lot Johnson's
lection covers, whether it is made out in his name alone, or with the
hl-J partners, and whether or not -Johnson now is the sole owner
•I.nfm. He would also like to know if, by buying out Johnson
r./i paying the ^Sfyears rental, he could obtain a clear lease from
Si.. . .•; •■"«; nt without further coraplicat ions^pf the IT l/2 of 8 l/2 and
■”f ■■ 4* H 1/2 of the lot,
j!>r winter here has been quite pleasant’ so far, but we have had
.'••w of sleighing, The rumors' of the nickel combine seem to
. . ..a 1 1 founded, but I have no definite information in regard to
"'•* are beginning our plans for again visiting your district
My near Whitridge,
In regard to your memo. in re Edison United Phonograph Co.
Paragraph 1. This would "be a good idea, as useless expense for rent and
salaries, eto. would he out off.
Paragraph 2 & 3. Nothing can he gained and .much will he lost
hy carrying out scheme in this paragraph.
Paragraph 4. The proposed transfer of manufacturing rights to Edison
can not he carried out hy the proposed company for the reason that
these rights as far as the Edison interest and patents are concerned
were never owned hy the Edison United hut have always been owned hy the
Phonograph Works and as far as the Graphaphone manufacturing rights,
owned hy the International Graphaphone Co., these were bought from the
International' Graphaphone Co., for i/foich the 'Works paid over $90,000,
i you see the Works already c
i the exclusive manufacturing rights of
manufacturing in all Countries, except England and Germany.
At the present time every patent owned hy the Edison United
Co. has expired, naturaly and hy reasons of i
l compliance with the
Mr. Twomhly never would take my advise and probably will
net do so now hut, nevertheless I will give it thus:
Y/ind up the Edison United Co. and the International, take
all the assets and put them in a trust and this in a trust company
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appoint, say Ml*. TSOtltrige, Liquidating trustee, issue collateral ^
trust -bond in exchange for notes outstanding, etc., stop all exposes
and then let the Liquidating Trustee investigate the whole m/bter, and
liquidate to the best advantage.
Searles and Moriarity are entitled to noth^^*^ They will
not object, I think because the last loan witLl notytfear investigation.
They will die easy if any investigation is Asiny^ted.
Yours truly, '
To S’. W. Whitridge, Beq.,
59 ¥all St.,
Hew York.
391
Frank Dyer, Esq. ,
SI Hassa\i St»,
New York.
Dear Sirs
In that nickel sheet case,' suppose some foreigner should
ship sheets and articles into the United States after I had my
patent, I could’ nt stop him without I had a claim.
On a new article of manufacture consisting of Iron coated
with Nickel electrolytioally and subsequently welded thereto,
substantially as set forth or claim another on articles already formed
then plated and welded like it.
We can’t get a claim on iron coated with Nickel in
sheets, etc., as that is now done by welding in open air and rolling.
Yours truly,
395
3erlin, Germany;
Friend Bergmann:
Chemical Works is about 80^ finished; the Machine Works
lf! 7o f finished. We already have made several full sized automobile
cells from the tools and which are on test. We expect to have four
automobiles out on the road at Orange by March 10th for testing
battery in actual practice. 3y April 1st we hope to be making 2000
colls daily. We want to perfect everything here before trying to do
anything abroad. When ready 3ick will come to Berlin and see you about
the formation of the German Company. It is going to be a great success
I do hope the fight will be continued in German patent office,, so we
get all we are entitled to by law and not be bluffed into accepting
a lot of poor patents which will be of no value when we get into the
Courts. If the Dunderland scheme goes through, I am going to do my
best to place the contract for the whole of the Electrical outfit with
you.
Yours truly,
February 14,1902
of Crown Lends ,
Toronto ,
Ontario .
In answer to your letter asking for the address of Hr.
. Hiller, the applicant for the | 3/4 of Lot 12, Con."y5T
ahaiu, I give the following address: Ira H, Hiller, o/o Edison
atory, Orange, K.J.
Yours respectfully,
Gordon,
, e. TTrieht,
Sudbury, Ont., Canada.
your letter 1» rosurd to a. “"V
Co„ for snider h.u Keen 1*** “a *" ““0t
'' „ ’ „ut ! u.lleve you Kindly offered to site your
^ grentinB of . 1— . ^ZT
c- for you. Hr. Bdieon le very sled to do this end
you. HO mold liKe to Kno„ ~t errant you uould
;„e„4. to t«..r, neoeeoary for ourrylns on »y
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‘ frus tine yo« f* tM ¥l"“r’ 1
Yours truly,
Mr . T. J. Byan,
410
Feb. 18, 1902.
Dear Mr. Eyan:
Enclosed please find the three notices of leases and the
payments on same. Thought it was better to send them to you so
you could keep the entire matter on file in your office.
Nov.’ there is another matter upon which 1 would like
information. As you know, all the lots are in the names of several
people and ofcourse Mr. Edison now would like them to he transferred
to the Edison Storage Battery Co., thinking that there might he some
regular form for this, or that certain steps would have to he taken
through the Crown Land Dept., I write you for full information.
Kindly let me hear from you in regard to this and the matter of Mr.
Johnson's claim as soon as possible .
Had quite a storm here yesterday which blocked streeet
cars, railroads, eto. Good sleighing now and not very cold, warm in
fact according to your reckoning. With kind regards to all, I
remain,
Yours sincerely,
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Your letter of 3eh. 19th duly received. . From it I
understand that Hr. Johnson and his partner hold only the W . l/2
of Lot 5, Con. 1, Snider; each having one half share. In a letter
from the department Oct. 24th, 1901, it is stated that both the E.
and W. l/s of the lot have been applied for hut no payments made.
I understood Mr. Johnson controlled hoth of these applications. Will
you kindly inform me in regard te this.
Mr. Edison has offered Mr. Johnson $125, as reimbursement
for any work he has done upon the lot, understanding that this covered
the entire lot and all claims in which Mr. Johnson or his partner
were in any way connected.
Hr. Edison wishes you to see Mr. Johnson and have a
thorough understanding, making him this offer. That Mr. Johnson and
hie partner or partners relinguish entirely their claim*- individually
and collectively upon Lot 5, Con. 1 of Snider, signing over to Mr.
r.;dison all their rights upon Baid lot, the same to he done upon the
payment of $125 hy Mr. Edison which shall he divided among the partners
Hoping you can quickly and easily arrange the matter, I remain
Yours truly,
/
Eel). 25, 1902,
Friend Cutting: Judge Howard W
This will introduce to you my attorney JudS
Hayes, oi HevarK, ■# . E is anxious to
”r
ziz:z x » «« - - «*“• - - a° * ‘8,“'
him will He very much appreciated Hy me.
Yours
ry truly,
L
Rcpl:/it:e tu your letter of the 11th inet., I beg to state
thit Mr. Edison advises we as follows:
The aoj.d process or,’ further reducing phosphorus from the
6?./, Cone, -both Magnetic and Hematite, is excessively simple and
inexpensive. The investment v;ill he comparatively small and
cost of acid and operation will, I think, not exceed 15 cents per
ton, an amount which from present stage of experiment will, I think,
more than he made up from the lessened cost of Briquetting the ore.
It will not he necessary to treat the whole 2500 tons
hut only enough to reduce the phosphorus when mixed, so the whole
will have the proper phosphorus.
We understand there is a pyrities mine now working at Mo.
This will give us cheap pyrities for manufacturing acid. Eor your
information, I will say, that last week I took 100 lbs. of the ssuns
ore as shipped you; adjusted the magnets and the results were
Hematite Concentrate .027; Magnetic Concentrate .016. It is a
question of adjustment. Mr. Ballantine was in too great a hurry
to go to England to make proper tests ana adjustments. However,
djustment seems to he
close affaii
I will add
ft ^ ^ ^ ^ „ % /
Messrs. Werner & Cogan,
Your estimates for fitting air, gaa, steam and water pipes
in' Mr. T. A. Edison's residence, namely $136.50 and $48.00, are accep¬
ted and Mr. Edison desires you te push the work as fast as possible.
Owing to the faot that Mr. Edison has decided to put in
city gas in his house a slight ohange will be necessary in the gas
connections. Probably you can make some agreement with the gas
company so that the same trench oan be used for the gas and air
pipes. It would be adviseable to consult them in regard to this mattei
and where their pipes will enter the house, as the gas pipe from the
Laboratory room is to connect with this and not the house system.
Trusting the work will be begun soon, I remain,
^ 11
left yesterday afternoon for Florida to "be
treatment in New York and is in 'batter condition than he has been
for many months. In addition to the improvement in his stomach,
we have had a dentist fr<
with all his appliances,
om New York, who came to the Laboratory
chair included, and has given Mr. Edison
an entire new set of teeth, making him look very much younger and
better; so v-e have every expectation when he returns from Florida,
that he will be in sple.ndid. shape for anything that may come up;
We received a letter from Rafn, asking about money. Mr.
Edison made the following memorandum before he left : "Tell Dick
to advance Rafn whatever money may be necessary." I beg herewith
to enclose you -a carbon copy of letter I have written Rafn, also his
letter to Mr. SdiBon, which please return after you have noted.
V/e are rushing the work on the Cement plant and hope to
turn over in April. V/e are elso making up six setB of batteries
and hope to have at least two or three automobiles running sometime
ready. We have steam on at Silver. Lake and it is barely possible
we may get aome of the batteries ready in three weeks. The last
tests show the full size oell gives better results than the small
one and there is no trouble from gasing and so far no other tro’bl*
452
have developed; so v:e all feel very much encouraged and believe
now that we have entered the commercial period.
I trust that you are having good success in your negoti¬
ations on the Norway business. V/ill get details from Mr. Simpkin
as soon as he shows up.
Yours very truly,
c/o Edison Ore Milling Syndicate , ltd. ,
London ,Y'.C.
(Enos. )
Dear Mr. Edison
1 teg herewith, to enclose a letter from B allant ine, which
I think may he of Interest, also carton copy of my reply tb Mr.
Diok, which explains Itself, and In which we plve the results of
the analyses of the same material , made ty MoCreath and Hetherlng-
ton.
As soon as ‘you have noted this letter, please return it
to us for our file.
Yours very truly,
(Z Encs. )
Thomas A. Edison ,3.8 5. ,
Eort Myers,
Florida.
m
H.E.DichjEsq. ,
c/o Edison Ore Milling Syndicate ,Xtd. ,
4-7 Amberley House , Norfolk St.,
London ,W.O.
My dear Sir:-
goma little time eince '» reoelvod a letter from Mr.
Bellantine, alee » oisar to* -*L. 0 1 Hematite »d *W‘“»
Dunderlend ore. wit* tte re,™.* «-t we hot. ee^ed. We
Mod two eemplee taMen, one o* .Hot wee o»olyt.d By ear
Chemlet at tie moratory witi the following r.eolte.
Hematite, metallic iron 68.40
phosphorus .0217
Magnetite metallic Iron 69.19
- Phosphorus _.0249
n Btter from McCreath, showing
We heg also to mdoBS'a letter irom
magnetite, metric iron *.».
“ 68-55;rr::;- ... - - "
amy moo., wo — -“^-rrrCtit.
Patter..?,* stead — • «• *“•“*“* ^ ^
' Yours very truly,
(Enclosure)
Letterbook, LB-068
This letterbook covers the period March 1 902-January 1 903. Most of the
correspondence is by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters by
Walter S. Mallory, John V. Miller, and others. Many of the items relate to the
planning, construction, and financing of the Edison Portland Cement Co. plant
at Stewartsville, New Jersey. There is also correspondence concerning the
technical development of Edison’s alkaline storage battery, arrangements for
its manufacture and sale in the United States and Great Britain, and its use in
electric vehicles, as well as letters pertaining to the organization of the Mining
Exploration Co. of New Jersey to finance Edison's search for nickel in the
Sudbury district of Ontario and other locations. Also included are letters
regarding the erection of the iron ore concentration plant in the Dunderland
region of Norway, in connection with the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd.,
along with other items pertaining to Edison’s interest in ore milling, mines, and
ores. There are a few letters dealing with the domestic phonograph business
and with Edison's efforts to sell his stock in the Edison Gower-Bell Telephone
Co. of Europe. Among the items relating to family and personal matters are
several letters to Lord Kelvin concerning a dinner and a tour of the West
Orange laboratory.
The label on the front cover contains the following notation: "Personal
Letter Book of Thomas A. Edison From Mar 14, 1902 To January 9, 1903."
There is a label on the spine with similar information. The book contains 496
numbered pages and an index. Approximately 20 percent of the book has been
selected.
Mar. 14, 1902.
Mr. A. K. Merritt, WBgt,
Yale University,
Mevf Haven, Oonn.
Dear Mr. Merritt:
I received your letter this morning and I thank you for
your kindness in making the inquiries and informing me.
I think it would he heat for me to come up there and see
the taen and accordingly I am planning to be in Hev/ Haven Monday
next. It is very kind of you to offer me the use of your offioe
but I am afraid it would rather inconvenience you, aB I shall
have a room at the hotel, perhaps it would he better to have the
men call 'there. I have no doubt but what I ORn get just the kind
of men I want for needle work as well as a geologist.
Hoping to see you on Monday, 1 remain,
Yours truly,
March 14,1902.
JameB Beggs & Co.,
9 Bey St.,
New York.
Dear Sirs:-
Blease qflote us price on one Pressure Blower (Baker t
P*tenO, with outlet, giVinc a pressure 14 to 20 ounces.
_ This 1b to be used in a pttle Laboratory Mr. Edison is
fitting up for use in bis house.
Yours very truly,
-vork on the briquetting experiment in the machine shop
has beer, practically stopped, to get out work for the Cement and
Storage Battery Companies.
Ihle of oourse will prevent another trial of the rotary
kiln until after this other work is out of the way, which may take
'the glass is expeoted today.
Yours truly,
week.
J?
28
1 lr. J. T. Hubliard,
Litchfield, Conn.
^ar Sirs
In regard to the Johnson mine. Mr. Edison has written
me f rox. Florida saying that he will accept your offer of $180 for
18.36 acrwg and right of way to highway, including the surface and
mining right* about the bo called Johnson mine, Prospect Mt.
It I understand rightly the land thus acquired will be
bounded to the N. E. by the main road which passes Mr. P. M. Grannie
house and the roag to Bantam, branching off from this near the Grannie
mine. Is this correct*?
Mr. Edison wishes you to draw up the necessary papers and
abstract of title and he will pay the $150 at once.
Your letter in regard to accomodations for the men reoeired
today and thank you for your kindness. Reoeived a letter from Mr.
Grannis today also.
We were unable to find any nickel in the sample of ore you
left here. Seemingly it is mostly iron in horn blende.
Yours truly,
V/
Mar. 24, 1902.
Mr. T. J. By an,
Sudbury, Ont.,
Canada.
Bear Sirj
Your letter In regard to transference of leases has bedn
submitted to Mr. Edison and returned. He wished to have the leases
transferred to himself instead of the storage Battery co. as first
planned, so accordingly the matter can he easily adjusted.
I enclose all the leases so far received namely:
S. 7/fe lot 4, Con. 5, Snider \
S. 3/4 Lot 2, Con. 1, Eairbank
Lot 12, Con. 1, Creighton
Lot 1, Con. 3, Gar b on
Lot 12, Con. 4, Ealoonbridge
S. 3/4
N. 1/2 of S. 1/2
S. 1/4
-
Kindly send at onoe the neoessary papers for eaoh which we must fill
out. I enclose the two blanks., also a oheck for $1 to Local Master
in regard to the lease of 'g. 3/4 0f Lot 12, Con. 1 of Creighton. If
I have not filled theja out correctly, please return with necessary
corrections indicated.
I enclose the letter .from the department .
YourB truly,
w
/
The Physicians’ Association of America,^
24.3 Broadway, \ /
hewYork. V
April 2, 1902.
In roily to yo„r favor of the 27*h olt., I t0 stat.
th.t there 1. a I.rty t„ »y entl.y hy the r.»* of Mr. Mrt, T. Prow.
Yours truly, ^
S’. .T. Kirwan & Co.,
. Bernardsville, R, J.
Bear Sir?:
X -beg * return
■Wm. I>. Si- ia on and >.-/ to -4
for tiie aavnunt at
cruising some vr’viuu1 a ."TO !s<
April 2, 1902.
herewith the -bill against ray son,
that you will hare to look v.o him
lint I heard o~iPr was that he wa a
n-o truly,
I
John Firth, Esq.,
c/o Da Forrest Wireless Telegraph Co.,
Jersey City, N. J.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 7th inst.,
that T have no Electro-moto-graph.
Yours truly,
Apr. 9, 1902.
I heg to stati
Geo. B. King, Esq . ,
745 Broad St . ,
Newark, IT. J.
Dear Sir:
Apr. 9, 1902.
In reply to your favor of the 7th inst., I heg to state
that I do not care to dispose of any of my property in Bloomfield or
Bollville.
Yours truly,
76
/
Apr. 17, 1902.
R. R. Bowker, Esq. ,
274 Lafayette Ave.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rear Sir:
Your favor of the 12th Inst. came duly to hand and in
reply I beg to state that I will he glad to see you any time. Before
coming over I would advise you to call up on the telephone so as to
bo sore that I am here.
Yours truly,
V
/
Apr. 17,1902.
W. L. Edison, Esq.,
Manteo, IT. C.
Dear Will:
Your favor of the 30th ult. addressed to your father came
duly to hand, after handing same to him he told me that there have
been a lot of patents taken out on this idea and that the general
impression is that' a combination of this kind is of no value.
Yours truly,
77
April 17, 1902.
Adams Express Co., 59 Broadway,
New York.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 11th inst., I beg to state
that I had a fine time. Why oan’t you come down next year, we do
not wear dress suits on the Gulf side. Am greatly pleased that dowry
haa arrived where he should have been years ago.
My boys will have the first automobile with new batteries
running in 12 days they say, and 3 or 4 besides before the month' is
out. We have already had a short test out on the road with an auto
and everything is going to be all right. Studebaker is shipping us
a delivery wagon and test on this will give you some data. The trouble
is going to be in the Tire.
Yours ,
ft'
Miss Mary E. Miller,
Oak Place,
Akron, 0.
Pear Miss Miller:
As per request of your brother., TXr. John V. Miller, I
t>«E to anoloa. you her.wlih two paper, la oouueotlou with ulokel
mine, in Panada for your aignatura, Will you kindly sign your '
1 ta"'* "rtU”> “ WU to loth of tte pupar. „a
th, .u.o.,4 should he awora to her.r. a notary Public, aho ah.uld
ce sure and put his seal on same.
\?hen the, are completed will you kindly send them to me
t"“ earliest possible moment, and greatly oblige.
Yours truly.
Apr. 22,1902.
£ i'
Samuel Insull, Esq.,
139 Adams St.,
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 18th inst., I heg to state that
I personally went through every scrap hook in the place and have heen
unahle to find the article which you mention. You might he able to
obtain a copy of the artiole from any of the following gentlemen:
Uta. J. Hammer, Luther Steiringer or Chas. Batchelor. Regretting very
Apr. 22,1902.
R. 0. Preston Means, Esq.,
Means & Pulton Iron TOcs.,
Birmingham, Ala.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 14th inst., I heg to state
that Banks is a good draughtsman hut in regard to his ability to
handle men, I have my doubts.
57,1/2 Old Broad St.,
London, E. c., Eng.
x jr;:ito;::;aTor °r - ett 1 - —
the Dunderland iron Ore Co.^ ^ ** pr°spectus of
Yours truly,
95 (
traction. It will have half the weight of those now in
v.se, » .<•• wires no attention, is fool proof and has the merit of
having none or very slight depreciation.
I shall test five automobiles between the factory and
Morristown, IT. J . and when the batteries have run 5000 miles each
at a high speed and do not show any deterioration, and I am entirely
satisfied that they are all right, I will then start the factories.
We shall have a capaoity of about 46,000 H. P. yearly. Hie teat
automobiles will oertalnly be going in May.
Yours truly.
1. C. Weir, Esq..,
o/o Adams Express Co.,
Mew York.
99
Jame3 Gaunt, Esq. ,
365 Canal Street,
New York.
Dear Sir:-
Replying to pours of the 25th inst., I heg to state that
my understanding of the conversation on Rehruary 8th, 1902, and
those subsequent, in the matter o.' negotiations for the reduction
of ore of the Sold Roads Mine owned by Messrs, Posey & Bayly, is
that I am to furnish a soheme for working the ore, and build a
pnm-n model at the laboratory at our joint expense.
You are to work up the details of an arrangement, subject
to my approval, before the tests are made, with Posey and Bayly
and their associates for working my machinery and appliances at this
Mine; and if the tests prove satisfactory to Messrs. Posey & Bayly
and the scheme and appliances are adopted by them, you and I are
to share and share alike in any profit in the undertaking.
Yours very truly,
oak
T. -C. Martin, Esq. ,
114 liberty 3t>.,
New York City.
My dear Mr. Martin:-
I em in receipt of your favor in which, you st^te that
the name of Mr. Stie ringer has been suggested in connection with
the Franklin Institute medals, and that in a recent conversation
with Mr. Stieringer that gentleman expressed a desire to Becure,
if possible, soijie brief statement from myself giving an opinion
as to his vrerk in el octrio illumination', his desire being, as I
tinder Btar.d it, to include such letter amongst his documents in
tbs cane.
I have- much pleasure therefore in conveying through you
my high opinion of the great utility of the work which Mr. Luther
Stieringer has done in the development and perfection of electric
illumination, particular as dependent upon the incandescent lamp..
From the earliest stages of my work in the invention and develop-
nori' of Incandescent lighting, now soma twenty-five years, I have
b~oit glad to avail myself of the practical ideas and suggestions
which Mr. Stieringer derived from his prior experience in connect¬
ion with gas lighting. She art has needed a great many refine¬
ments adapting it to better use and insuring the highest safety
and efficiency, and in all that relates to the electric fixture
ejrt Hr. Stieringer' s work must always be prominent.
Tn addition to this it is well known to you that Mr.
Stieringer has dsveloped not only engineering ap-titudes of a high
order, but has found the means for illustrating the superior flex
loility of the electric light in a Berieo of Bpeotacular effects,
extending over a period "f the last twelve years at leading
Expositions in this country, notably at the Chicago World’s Pair
in «fid culminating in the display at the Pan -.American last
■war.. Tn .fact, no account of the development of decorative
.igntina in America would be complete which did not embrace the
jri.UiHnt and successful work done by Mr. Stieringer.
Trusting that the above notes will serve as a eatisfao'
orj to your question, and that Mr. Stieringer may again
May 13th, 1902.
Mr. Diok:-
We cannot find one of the original agreements between
Messrs. Edison, Bergmann and Diet and the Edison Ore Milling
Syndicate .Ltd., dated October 16th, 1899. We have a copy which is
endorsed as follows:
"Original signed and acknowledged October 16,1899, by Mr.
Edison and Mr. Dick, before me, as Master in Chancery of Mew Jersey
and handed to Mr. Dick, who at once handed same to Mr. Beazly, from
London, England. (Signed) Alexander Elliott, Jr."
Undoubtedly, there were two original copies signed and
we think we should have, one of them. Do you know what became of
them?
Mallory.
Chicago, ni.
tear Sirs
1 understand, that I am to design the plant for the
Ihr.v.-.eriand Iron Ora Co., lay out the general plans and he consulted
on all details; that while this is being done Itr.. Simple In is to be
ay assistant and under my directions. Wien the general plan and sketch
details are finished*- Mr. Simpkin is then to go to tondon and finish
up the detail plans r then as fast as the detail plans are completed
copies are to be sSnt to me to check and for my approval, this can be
done at same time the prints are sent* out for bid and I oan correct
any defects berore oorittadts are closed.
It being understood that I will not be in any way responsi¬
ble for any work or devices contracted for or constructed that does
not haws my approval, it being also understood that I am to have,
privilege of having my private inspector inspect any or all the work
during construction.
Yours truly,
Harold -P. Brown, Esq. ,
120 liberty Street,
Sometime since there was an agreement made between ufS for
the use -of the bond. Pram -time to time, you Have made various
statements as to the condition of the business and have said that
yon -would render statements, none of which have ever been received.
J would hB obliged if you would render an accounting up tp date.
Your early attention will oblige,
Yours very truly.
I have just learned that Roberts has ordered two 65 ton
and two 80 ton Vulcnfc shovels. These were bought by Slmphln
without saying awpfd.to me. I presume the two 65 ton shovels
are for R.R. wort, for whloh they are more suitable than the larger
shovels, and th/y oa^arpbaVly be sold when the railroad lp con¬
structed; by; aB rega^flfe /he 80 ton shovels, they will be of no
value for mining Jre sent oonstrueted. I have had a very
large experience in handling large rook, both at Edison and
Stewartsville , which has brought out certain defects in the
shovels, arising from handling large rocks without chaining, as is
the usual praotioe. I intended that certain changes should he
made in the parts of the shovels, which have a bad record; so
that Instead of an average of five hours per a*y, Per month, out of
a possible ten hours, I would get seven at least. To^do this,
the shovel should in places, be very much stronger than would seem
necessary.
The two 80 ton shovels, on account of breakdowns, causing
a low monthly average, will raise the cost of the ore considerably
above my estimate; therefore, please notify the London people
that my figures as to cost at Mine mUBt be raised, if these shovels
are to be used.
Yours very truly.
May 201:11*1902.
My dear Major Bent:-
Mr. Edison has fully noted yours of the 16th Inst, and
says he Is very glad to know you are pleased with what you saw on
your visit to the Cement Works. It is his expectation to go to
Stewartsvllle and remain there some little time, the moment the
Works are ready to operate.
Regarding- the present status of the Storage Battery, beg
to state that we are this week assembling the first of the nww cells
and hope within the next three or four weeks, to have six or seven
automobiles running on road tests, and unless some unexpected
trouble develops, we will be ready, in about six weeks from now, to
The battery, up to the present time, has realized all 01
expectations and we hope to be able to break some of the road
records as to the number of miles we can travel on one charge.
Mr. Edison Joins the writer in sending kindest regards,
tours very truly,
Major 1. s. Bent, - ../‘y
312 airara Building,
Bhil adelphi a ,P a .
May 20th, 1902.
ft
. Dick, Esq. ,
154 Lake Street,
Chicago, Ills.
Dear Sir:-
Hr. Edison, In loolS
that he is to design the plant,,
time, he has reoeived no
designing, and while he is
complete, such notice shoi
6^
(spectus to-day, notes
^ to the present
go ahead with the
think&^to keep the records
■
May 21,1902.
M. B. TVhittlesey, Esq. ,
72 Home Company Bldg.*
Betrolt, Mich.
Dear Sirs
In reply to your favor of the lat inst., I beg to state
that I do not remember Mr. Clancy’s family. I think Mr. JaBjes
Symington of Port Huron, Mich, can obtain the information for you.
Yours tnuly,
Alexander Morten, Esq.,
44 Beaver St.,
Hew York.
May 21,1902.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 1st inst., I heg to state
that automobiles with new battery will be running on experimental test
in about ten days. Eaotories will start Belling batteries in about
S months but doubt if English company will be in position to manufac¬
ture this summer .
Yours truly,
144
Pobert Hafn, Esq,.,
Savoy Hotel,
Berlin, Germany.
Dear sir;
in reply r,Tor ,t tl„ ^ t „„ to ^
lfl“ 1 t'’*, ** lr“ ~ * -tly »«i.
1 °h"'6<a- °” “« * ”f ”•« — ** fti «ir •« te.tea,
*■ ■‘lrri“at- **“ *— - Mneneaum pel. „iMly, J
second plating after disaharoat ^
it. disoharge is poor and we have not yet got over
„« . , K‘ep “* th* "a rl<*' for our »!<“■»> »° aifth.
patent will mem eomethlng »en w, s.t tt,
Sours truly,
146
Dear Sir : -
Kr. Edison requests that you will advise us where you
^•ruhi.e Phosphoric Anhydride, He says that he will want to
use quite a little of it for the Storage Battery plant and wants to
get at headquarters for buying.
V/e will appreciate the information.
Yours very truly,
u
Prank. Dyer, Bag..,
May 22, 1302,
\/
31 Nassau St . ,
Hew York.
Dear Sir:
Please append patent office references and let us try
to answer these questions, so we can fix claims before taking out
patent, now allowed.
Yours truly,
ill
11
MEIli R.
1st. Who vfa.a first to use a Boale team with the counter on the
■Beam in an electrio meter.
2nd. Who first to work such a Beam by a selenoid with coil in
aeries with the lamps.
3rd. Who first to use soft unmagnetized iron in such a solenoid.
4th. Who first to wind a fine wire on suoh selenoid to produce
aiv initial magnetism suoh coil Being across the line.
5th. Who first to wind the selenoid coils on a copper tube to
retard the violence of the action of a short oirouit on the beam.
6th. Who first to make double windings of the selenoid to permit
of the use as a 3 wire meter.
7th. Who first to do as in 6 with an extra coil to give initial
magnetism to the core and such coil across the line.
8th. Same as 7 with sgft iron core.
9th. Who first to use a hollow oore or tuBe of soft iron in meter
selenoid.
10th. Who first to overbalance the meter Beam with recorder on the
Beam.
11th. Who first to use a friction driven wheel connected to a counter
by power transmitting mechanism, so a rotation of the wheel advances
the Recorder.
12th. Who first as in 11 to have such a wheel so arranged that it is
free to lift when it comes in contact with an extraneous body in
motion and produce traction for driving the wheel.
13th. Who first used a revolving interegating wheel.
14th. Who first to drive this by a worm.
15th. Who first to form such wheel so its surface shall at all points
i1)
■be of approximately of the i
• sweep of the/traction wheel
16th. TO 10 first drove any kind of an intergrating dpvioe by a
motor across the line. ^
17th. TOio first drove any kind of an intergrating device "by a motor
aoross the line with any device operated hy a solenoid in serieB with
the lights.
18th. Who first used a motor with a govenor, worked by friction
run continuously and placed across the line.
19th. Who first as in 18, with addition of a beam with, the counter
thereon and a selenoid in series and containing a soft iron core.
80. Who first made a motor having a govenor with pendulous govenor
arms engaging glass to provide the friotion of relaidation.
After these have been settled and perhaps one more applica¬
tion made we will be in a pat position to draw up good claims.
Mrs. C. E. Keirihard,
530 E. Buchtel Ave.,
Akron, 0.
May 22,1902.
Madam:
In reply to
that at present I have
your favor of the 19th inst., I heg to state
i no position whiah I can offer your son.
Yours truly,
... O •
J /li'i CL. (ooLuLm
May 23rd, 1902.
Arthur Koppel.Eeq. ,
66-68 Broad Street,
Will you i.luuue mot, „» on ao sets or ™i„, Ui, snd
»i. a, »ieel, t0 b. a0 M 28„ ln aimsterj Btmdar(i
8ause' *° r<“ “ * 30 «u- *h. «. W, to n«
on the top and without apripgp.
We wish to use these in some experimental worJc and intend
“ ^ »•> »«J . OM iron pit.,
In Quoting u, , pl«»„ ,ay hm eoon you c>lt furnlab a>
l7,,m,rM “»* “* It" »»* » • iinranolon .fc.toh, .Wing
what you are quoting <,n.
By -twenty sets?, we mean wheels and axles for twenty cars,
that is, two axles for wheels aqd no axle boxes.
Ypurs yery truly.
Harold P. Brown, Esq., *
120 liberty Street,
Hew York.
My dear Sir:-
Heplying to youra of the 21st inst* , which have fully
notea, beg to state that Mr. Upton had no authority to speak for me
In this matter, and he states that he hah not made any statements
to you; in fact, that the matter never hoe been mentioned to him
by mye elf . What 1 want is, that otir understanding be carried out
in good faith, and I will be obliged if you will submit me s State¬
ment in detail from the time the business was first started.
Yours very truly.
Hr. E, A. Barling ,M. fc. ,
Since I have learned about the hearing on the first 36"
rolls being out owing to dirt and foreign material, I have con¬
cluded that it will he heat not to operate any more of the
machinery at Stewartsville until 3 arrive. You will, therefore,
discontinue the work of operation and bend all your energies towardB
completing the plant, and 1 will arrange to go to Stewartsville at
an early date, to take charge of the starting up.
Yours very truly.
May 29th, 1902.
I
Theo. Audel & Co.,
0
63 5th Avenue,
Dear Slrs:-
Hew York.
Replying to yours of the 26th Inet. , beg to state that
if you will send a copy of the Self Propelled Vehicles , I would -
fce very glad to look it over.
Yours very truly,
James Gaunt ,Esq. , j
365 Canal Street,
Hew York.
Dear Sir : -
Mr. Edison desires me to thank you for the three cakes
of "Pear’s" soap, which arrived to-day. He says he thinks these
will enable him to try the experiment he has in mind'' - I called
Mr. Edison's attention to the fact that Mr. Pospy will' be EAst
shortly and will try and get the agreement in shape before he
arrives.
Yours very truly.
sff'-ifl -t
May 29,3.902,
ir '
¥. J. Hammer, 'ftsq. ,
26 Cortlandt St.,'
■Hew York.
r sir:
Will you kindly let me know the names of the electrolyti
^eonle you mention in your favor of the 27th inst.
The Marconi business is progressing.
Yours truly,
E. H. Davis, Esq. ,
141 Broadway,
Hew York.
Dear Sir:
May 29,1902.
in reply to your favor of the 23rd inst., * T,eg to Btat0
that our men start out from Sudbury July 8th. If they sasB through
the territory containing your property we would be glad to go *Ter
Yours truly,
June 3rd, 1902.
My dear Mr. Ulbri cht : -
I have shown Mr. Edison yours of the 31st ult. , in which
you state that your principals are vriLlling to accept a payment of
$10,000. and interest on account of the notes for $30,000, which
fall due on July first. V'e will have the one note prepared for
$20,000. and give you a check for the $10,000. and interest on
July 1st.
Mr. Edison appreciates very much the accommodation from
your principals and your help in the matter, and joins me in the
wish that you will have a very pleasant and profitable trip in the
V/est.
Yours very truly,
G. Ulhricht ,Esq. ,
30 Broad Street,
Hew York.
209
June 23, 1902.
■Standard Construction Corporation, Ltd.,
7 Amberley House, Norfolk St.,
London, W. C., England.
Dear Sirs:
Answering yours of the 9th inst., will say that nothing will
be done with my foreign patents until I am manufacturing the
battery commercially here. When I do my foreign business, the work
will be done by Mr. Dick under my direction and instructions and
each country will ha 7« its own organisation a:.v! manufacturing plant
for that country only.
In Enelavw: 9 new corporation vr.,M > c formed on such lines
that se*:-. to me ti. -,j fair the i. -r “\- .ho well as myself.
Yours very truly*
June 10th, 1902.
TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MINING EXPLORATION COMPANY
of New Jersey,
Orange , N. J .
Dear Sirs: —
I am the owner of the following patents of the United
States and the Dominion of Canada.
United States Patents
For a process for extracting
copper pyrites, dated DecSm'ber
15, 1901.
Eor a process for separating
ores, dated July 21st, 1896.
For a process for treating
ores, dated July 12,J893.
For an elevator and conveyor
dated October 27th, 1899.
For a method of apparatus for
reducing rook, etc.-, dated
Dec. 29th, 1899.
I Iv-’K granted to the Edison Storage Battery Company,
corporation of the State of Hew Jersey, a license under Canadlah
patents #43588 and United States patents 564423 and 465250.
I offer to 3*11 *r> you for use in United States and
Canadf: only, Canadisn patents 43588 and United States patents
564423, subject to the said license- 4o the Edison Storage Battery
# 465,250
#564,423
Canadian patent e-
# iZ.tse,
ir 64,611
# 65,594-
ye art
view of my many other interests and engagements,
22 8
July 7, 1902
K. oVe no..: . •'.» !,r
Vand'.'V/j| 28,
-i-'V-j jn:v ;e, Denmark.
Dear Sir;
1 T.eiieve that v/ithin thirty years nearly all of the Railways
will discard the steam locomotive and adopt electric motors^ and that
the- electric utomohile will displace horse traction almost entirely.
That in the r re sent state of science there are no facts known hy which
one could predict any future fdf commercial Aerial navigation.
Yours truly.
jv^.M
7
oi.iaZ
FSSea
x have your letter telling me that Mr. Betts would tie
glad to consider my views hearing dpon the scope of my inventions
and claims, and any reasons why such claims could ta construed to
apply to the Marconi system.
I think it would he more satiBfaqtory to have the views
of some third person, and 1 have asked Professor Crocker of Colunfoia
College for his views qf the subject.
Yours truly.
j' ft. por Francis B. Crooker,
’7i5S;*!stalilo, Mass.
My ,'Dsar Orooker:
Will you kindly look at my patent of December 29-th, 1891,
No. 465,971, and compare it with the Marconi patent,, and tell me
what bearing, in your opinion, my invention and claims have upon the
claims of Mr. Marconi’s patent and whether, in your opinion, my claims
can be construed to apply to the Marconi system, as shown in these,
elaims of hie patent Which may .reasonably he considered valid.
I und-oMstEutd that in some quarters tjiepe exists an impression
that there is some.jnseromatic importance attached to what are now
called Hertzian -waves. 1 would especially like your viewB as to whe¬
ther the olalms 'In the Maroonl patent do in fact conoern a principle
radically different from and opposed to the principle that is the sub¬
ject of the claims in my patent; or, whether, on the other hand, eleo-
trJo waves are electric waves whether they be called inductive or
m
Professor PranoiB B. Crocker,
Kjf’7’
1902.
Barnstallif Pass.
3'V 2sr-.' Crocket!
If I 3ucoee& in doing anything with the Marconi people,
v.V'J.. .. you a fee otherwise I shall feel like asking you to charge
yoi.; ’ ••.•yie off to Profit and Loss.
Yours truly,
S' July 9* 1902.
\ /
Messrs. Tiffany & Co., \ /
Union Square, *
Hot York.
*“Slr’m y„ .and out .».« houae 1» a-W «*
Orange, H. J. to repair a clock, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
V7ill %Vou kindly have all the letters for Master Charles
Edi3on, Hiss Madeline Edison and myself forwarded to the Laboratory
instead of my house at Llewellyn Park until further notice, and oblige.
24
Hew York.
Dear Sirs: —
I foawe yours' of the 7th inst. enclosing copy of letter
of June 25th,19Q2r from the Edison Ore Milling Syndioate .Limited,
also copy of letter of August 2nd, 1900, from Mr. Joseph Lawrence,
all Of which have been carefully noted.
There is no question but what the Syndicate are entitled
to the Cement rights on all machinery which comes in under . the
contract, but the machinery and devices designed specially for
Cement work and invented after the contract was made, does not go
to them without further consideration to me.
The patents covered by yours of June llth.,1902, were
assigned in error and should be re-assigned to me.
Yours very -truly,
ir r0 bailor* .» ;ie to write and a,-;c you to have an
■•ate jufij.- up at the eao it possible moment of 3v. w much money
t.111 :’2qt ir* '■■■■' the months «•; July and August.
V»6 -.va.i ■ to '(ga% this as quickly as possible so we can
an assessment upon the stock holders of the Exploration Company.
Yours truly,
July 17,1902.
> 5
John H. Wood, Esq. ,
171 Broadway,
New York.
Bear Sir:
I beg to enclose you herewith check from the Hartford Eire
Insurance Company made out in the name of Mina M. Edison. Will you
kindly let me know if this is correct and return same to me and oblige.
Yours truly,
S. 0. Edison, Esq.,
Windsor Hotel,
Orange, N. J.
Bear fir:
I beg to enclose you herewith a letter from S. litchfield.
Hr. Eu' non wished me to ask you to answer same.
Yours truly,
July 22, 1902.
Jo Henry Brady, Esq.,
Bo Usville, Ky.
In reply to your .favor of the 8th inst.,
do no., know wasra you can of. tain the thin
•n your letter.--
I teg to gtate
aheet metal mentioned
Yours truly,
July 23, 1902.
H. Mo K, Twombly, ^Esq. ,
Mills Bldg.,
Kew York.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly return to me as soon as. possible the $20,000
note mentioned in your letter of June 30th and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
July I9D»-.
H, E. Dick, Esq,
163 West Jackson Blvd . ,
*’ i. P
I Deg to enclose you herewith, u letter drafted "by Mr. Eaisoi
for Mr. Wallace. Will you kindly look over same and make any changes
which you think necessary and return it to me and I will have it
re written, signed hy Mr. Edison and sent to him. I also enclose
you herewith your letter of July 16th with a memo . from Mr. Edison
on same and a letter from Mr0 W. H. Stewart.
Master Hamilton Twombly,
V inland, Newport,
Rhode Island.
Dear Sir
that V *:
It will
put the
Ir. reply to your favor of the 16th Inst., I hee to state
e Tt the '>mohil« to arrive at the factory within a week.
IV a tty, days -to make eome changes on it and then I will
ar ’•tery in and ship it to Newport.
You will have no trouble in running it; my boy who is only
July 24, 1902.
The North American Review,
Franklin Square,
New York.
Dear Sirs
In reply to your favor of the 23rd inst., I heg to Btate
that so far we only have two autos running, one has made 1127 miles,
the other 400. Until I get some changes made on the autos so they
will not break down all the time, I can not keep the five going.
Better postpone the scheme for a month, when I hope to have
all going.
Yours truly,
Mr. Chas. T. Hughes, Mgr.,
General Electric Co.,
44 Broad St., N. Y,
July 24, 1902,
273
Your favor of the 23rd inst. addressed to Mr. \7. 8. Mallory
in regard to returning the two motors which we have here at the Labor¬
atory has been turned over to me to have the shipment made. Will
you kindly let me know at the earliest possible moment where you
wish these motors shipped and oblige,
Yours truly,
As per your telephone message, I spoke to Mr. Edison about
his going to Stewart 3ville tomorrow and he requested me to Bay that
he is too busy here at present to come up tomorrow and does not want
to come up until you are sure everything is all right and when it is
you can notify him to that effect and he will come up.
Yours truly,
July 31, 1902.
\S
Lias. T. Hughe a , Esq.,
General Electric Co . t
44 Broad St., H. Y.
ear Sirs
Aa per your favor of the 25th Inst., 1 heg to state that
c aterd r;v S shipped to the General Eieotrio Co., lynn, Mass, the
wo s>«t*.'«*Tsii» motors and sent them Bill of lading for same.
Yours truly,
Treasurer, Orange Methodist Church,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:
Aug. 1, 1902.
The day Mrs. Edison left to go away she handed- me 6 whole
tickets and 5 children tickets for the excursion to Ashury Park and
Ocean Grove to give a certain party, I handed the tickets to the party
and he has just given me the money for which X enclose check for $8.00
as per instructions from Mrs. Edison. Kindly acknowledge receipt,
and oblige. Yours truly,
Aug. I2th, 1902
286
Aug. 12th, 1902.
My Dear Wallace
X suppose Dick has already told you that I proposed
to ' tiiijii n>* o)i the battery and not to consolidate v/ith anybody, no
matter -/hat the consequences maybe. You are under a misapprehension
about my employing chemists and that they have wrongly advised me; X
never employed a chemist in working up this battery. I do my own chemi¬
cal work.
Regarding the battery in England, T have placed it in the hands
of Mr. Dick and when everyhting is ready, he will come over prepared to
talk business and if you. are not in the deal, I shall be very much mis¬
taken, as both Mr. Dick and myself have a very high regard for you, but
the yu'inger branch of the business we shall have nothing to do with.
Yours truly,
August 13th, 1502,
led to your Issue of the Sth Inst,
mver statinij that a xjroccn.fi'
;old from the dry placers of the
well in my laboratory, but
>ce*« vovked perfectly in actual
;h small value in sold per cubic
iommer daily.
mt was spent on the plant is
;al pi
built.
August 13,190a.
Mr. Ainsv/orth: -
Yours of the 23rd at hand. X h m> been ab-
v/eeks starting up the Cement Works or I would have
>re .
gl^d you got the phono working all right. If you want
rds say the word. Our latest records are v?r; ,ni,oh
cl-ng the Briquetting Unit, am pushing it right along. You
with the reducing quality of the brick and also the
ness of manufacture, and small investment required
: Hematite was not extra easy. The Crushing Plant
: ora through at the rate of 540 tons per hour,
0.: course limestone is easy to crush, but
iv-ors will handle that, amount.
A. B. Sellman, Eb<j. ,
Cincinnati, o„
Dear Sir;
Xn reply to your favor of the 15th inet., I beg to state
ttat I do not manufacture nor know anything about the machine you
mention. yours truly,
Dear Sir:
I beg to advise you that the mortgage on the Silver hake
property for $11,175.00 falls due on Sept. 3oth and is held by Mr.
H.. C.. Halleribeok, Mountclair, N, J. Do you wish me to find out if
Mr. Halleribeok will let the mortgage run.
Yours truly.
Aug. 21, 1902.
Ain, Esq.,
anville House, Arundel St.,
London, W. c., England.
FUmpkin:
x'our favor of the 28th ult. came duly to hand and in reply
Str“” that 1 ^ very glad to hear that you had such a pleas-
‘3*“ Everything around the place is running about the same as
■ =,5 ;C‘ t-siU keeps up in first class
i«h for the check for $1.50 and promis-
Yours truly
c/o Mr. "R. A. Darling,
StewwtBVJ.il*> i
Reat Sir : —
I have made an estimate on the cost, of material and
labor connected with Switches for Signal System at the Stewar
v±lle Plant, baaed on the sample Switch X sent you. I have fame
that X can make these at 93 cents per Switch, net, i. e. not in¬
cluding general expense. -If this is all right, please have the
sample Switch sent to me so that X can copy sam^.
Yours truly,
-<£. :i •
Aug.. 25th. , 02.
R. A. Darling ,
X am sending this to you to hend to Hi;. Kdison,
that the matter
he decided
Aug. ee, 1902.
was nr 8. Maher & Floefchart, '
96 Polk Rt.,
Mewark, H. j.
hear Sin?;
We heg to return you herewith your hill of August 20th for
■T2.X8 which should he charged to us instead of the Edison Ore
Mim ing Syndicate. Kindly return same properly charged as soon as
possible, and greatly oblige,
Yours truly,
Edison laboratory
C 2?
I <..s t. ««. that i do „.t tlllm ^ of ^ rinas
described in poor iett.r of Aopust uth and do no, thin* it «,u,
to apply for thm. I .nolo.. y„„ herewith . „OJy „r a ^
you do not appear to have received.
Yours truly,
b/27/o a/,'.' r>:
et, Kew York.
r favor of August 20th, together
rtsville yesterday, anti he reque.
tion as to exactly what the numb
o will not sign any more papers
net A cat a
328
John V. Miller, Eeq. ,
Sudbury. Ont.,
Canada.
I. ear f-ir:
Sept. 2, 1902.
; thirJ: the onl?r attraction? that amount to anything 37
and 3b, the latter is pretty good. -37 la a very small chute hut
possibly rich. I like the looks of 36. Use your Judgement about
applying for the attractions.
YOure trdly1
Thbroas A. Edison, Esq.,
■c^> Edison Portland Cement Co..,
Stewart evil le, jr, j.
Dear Sirs
Ilieg to enolhs® you herewith the following letters, as I
understand from Hr. Mallorjr tjiat you will probably not he home Sunday.
Yours truly,
letter Y row W. SjLmpkiji, Aug. Si, .1902 with two blue prints
" " W. Simpkin, Aug. *gS, 1908 with tracing
" " W. Slnrpkin, Aug. 23, 1902
Photograph of Dynamo and Engine from W. Simpkin
tetter from R. Rafn, Aug. 18., 1902.
Alexander Elliott Jr. , Esq. ,
Belmont House,
lit. Pocono, Pa.
Bear Sir:
I beg to enclose you herewith., the old note for §1,000 and
as I know What kind of a man Mr. Gilmore is I did not have the
nerve to go to him and tell him that you Was unable to pay the
interest, so with Mr. Hallorfr's permission I gave him a check for
§20.00 from the Hew Jersey & Pa. Concentrating Works and charged the
same against your aooount. .
Yo;urs truly,
S'. J&ckeon, Esq.,
% Con. Telephone Construction & Mfg. Cp,, ltd.,
38 Victoria Street, Westminister,
' London, S. W. , England.
Dear Sir: —
, Seplying to yours of the 1st. inst. to Mr. Dick,
has been forwarded to Mr. Edison, we beg to state that Mr.
will sell all his right, title and Interest in the shares
Edison-Gower-Bell Telephone Company of Europe, for $10,000,
the purchaser undertaking to obtain delivery of the shares
Gourard and others.
which
Edison
of the
> cash,
from
Yours very truly,
9/8/02/WSM/t
Mr, P. Clarence Miller,
437 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
My dear Miller:--
Your letter asking that I contribute some of ipy Common
stock so the $500,000. preferred stock now in the Treasury may he
sold, has been waiting my return from Stewart sville, where I hare
been all the time for the past month.
1 have carefully noted all you say and while, as you
know, I have already given back to the Company a considerable amount
of Common Stock, I am willing to join in any equitable arrangement
that wl.il help cur enterprise, but do not think I should be asked
to do it all.
1 understand that you and your Company have a large
number of shares of Common stock, which practically represent
your bonus, and before I reply in more detail to your suggestion,
I would like to know what you are willing to do out of your shares
to help raise the necessary common stock.
My own judgment is that as soon as we make cement, the
preferred stock can be sold with a very much less bonus than you
mention.
9/23/02 /taA
Telegraph. Operator,
Bawl Ins ,
■Wyoming Territory.
Dear Sir: —
Will you please send me a cigar box full of material from
the paint mine near the station. I want to use the material for a
experiment. Please send by express, charges collect, and address
it to me, care of Edison Storage Battery Company, Silver lahe^K.J.
Thanking you very much for your trouble, I am,
I Yours very truly, I’H
On November let I desire to use my house in which you live
and would aBk that you vaoate same by that time and sooner if possible,
and oblige.
Tours truly,
10/7/02 ,/vm/i.
386
h (/ C
. wrote Mr. H, S'. Jackson, offering him
■ of Europe, for .110,000.,
i delivery of the shares ]
V/e understand that they desire the shares merely to keep
irard from making trouble. In thin case you probably will be
make an arrangement with them to transfer the contract.
Y.’ill you kindly take the matter up with Mr. Jackson while
in London and advice us what can be done. "We would like
;h» if possible, to make sale of the shares.
H.E.McK.Esq,. ,
c/o Hotel Cecil, ,
London , Engl and •
387
copy.
THE CONSOLIDATE]) TELEPHONE CONSTRUCTION & JONUEACTURING GO. , LD.
L O N D O N, 24th September 190#
V.'. Mallory, Esq. ,
o/o T. A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, New York.
Dear Sir,
I hare to thank you for your letter of the 9th Anst. with
reference to Kr. Edison's shares in the Edison Gower Hell Telephone
Company of Europe. I will write you further with reference to the
price which you say that Kr. Edison would be willing to accept, hut
X am afraid it would not he possible for us to purchase upon tho
condition of our obtaining delivery, as we do not know what the
rights are as between Kr . Edison and the present holders of the
shares. TOiat we should require would he the properly executed
transfers, and I would suggest that in the first instance the trans¬
fers should he made from the present holders to Kr. Edison, end then
he could re-transfer them to us. Will you kindly write me further
as to what you can do in this matter.
Yours faithfully,
H.E. Jackson.
K. C. Dfoel, ®sq.,
Edison Bldg . , 44 Broad St.,
In reply to your favor of the 13th inst. , I heg to etaue
that I do not know anything about the American Nickel Company.
t£rs. Axel Johnson,
West Orange, H. J.
I beg to advise you that Krs. Edison has just called me
up on the telephon'd and wished me to notify you that you need not
move from the house until you hear from her again.
ours truly,
V f <r .
Hoy. 6, 1903,
rs/c Liberty -Bell as Co.,
Ar, you gave no address i
tiled the same to you
as I have this day gi'-i'in /c
, 15. Montague, Esq..,
, your favor of the 5th inst., I "beg to state
•;,;jvut toe. Edison is away am
: are unable to tell just
Vv,? -,£. return. If you will address a letter to him care of
fcvfg z-ctivs in regard to the subject which you wish to see him about
».e R-.ij 1 »sa that, the letter roaches him.
• Tours truly,
11/12/02/lVS MA
✓
The Morris County Machine...* Iron Co.,
Dover,
Dear Sires —
V,'ill you kindly quote us .on -two eets of' -36" rolls ,
duplicates of those made for the Edison;. Portland Cement Company,
alpo state, how soon you could deliver after receipt of order.
Please note that we have decided to take up ourselves
the matter of selling this machinery direct to the consumers' arid
if you have any inquiries for any of our devices, we will he obliged
if you will forward the inquiries to us.
Yours very truly,
Kdiaon Ore Hilling Syndicate, ltd./
Fitzalan House, Arundel st.,
Strand, London, \7. 0., England.
'■ Oirai
0
In reply to your favor of the 3rd inst., I beg to state
tMtli 1 that horeafter »«*«*•* opinions are , asked of counsel
“ *° :-°88me o" ^ particular patents that you
first get an opinion with data from myself. This will save consid¬
erable expense as I am quite familiar with the art.
The Wetherill patents cover nothing broad in view of prev¬
ious American patents.
Yours truly,
evO nouiLE
rr :
:a*t-to iBiCi
• Ji.tr meet
jgps I .hull
iBBO^fOl as.,
i^ieg |atll
r ....
slieraA bjjoI
Dear Mrd. Foyer:
I beg- to -advise you that I am sending you this day by
express a large photograph of Mr. Edison with his autograph on sane
for the port Huron* Theatre . The' express -on this package Is prepaid
and you should nflt have to pay anything on it,
Yours truly,
Mygiehio Blailket Co.,
Hubbardstovm , Mass.
Dear Sirs:
J am in receipt of yonr favor of the 17th, and in reply
would say that I know nothine about the invention referred to in
the circular which you enclose.
Yours veiy truly ,
I beg to enclose you herewith the following certificate*
of stock:
ioaten,
10 share
.fto. 163 in the name
of Vr. 8. Pilling
5 Shares
164 " " "
W. H. Snolmerdine
5 "
165 B * •>
E. C. Hiller
5 "
166 " " '*
T. 1. Crane
5 '»
16'? . .
VT. S. Mallory
5 »
168 " " "
L. S. Bent
5 «
165 '• "
Harlan Page
5 "
Total
35
In. place of the above will you kindly eend me two certif-
one drawn to my order for 25 share e and the other one for
b, and greatly oblige.
Yours truly
473
/..a
DarO.7, 19-02.
I -beg to enclose you herewith my oiiedk for $20,160., the
same being in payment of your note for $20,000 with interest at 6^.
Kindly deliver to hearer the note, agreement and the 25 bonds which
was put up as collateral security, and greatly oblige,
I beg to enclose you herewith draft on London for - 252.
me"'"
Will you kindly place same to my credit and advise/of the total
amount and how much you allow per pound, and greatly oblige.
Yours truly.
482
Letterbook, LB-069
This letterbook covers the period January-October 1903. Most of the
correspondence is by Edison and John F. Randolph. There are also letters by
Walter S. Mallory and others. Many of the items relate to the construction and
financing of the Edison Portland Cement Co. plant at Stewartsville, New
Jersey. Included are references to the fire at the plant in March 1 903 that killed
eight workers. There is also correspondence concerning the technical and
commercial development of Edison’s alkaline storage battery and its use in
electric vehicles, including a series of letters to Herman E. Dick regarding its
possible foreign exploitation. In addition, there are letters pertaining to the
Mining Exploration Co. of New Jersey; Edison's search for nickel in the
Sudbury district of Ontario and in other locations; and to the organization of the
New Jersey Patent Co. Also included are letters regarding the erection of the
iron ore concentration plant in the Dunderland region of Norway, in connection
with the Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, Ltd., along with other items pertaining
to Edison's interest in ore milling, mines, and ores. There are a few letters
dealing with the domestic phonograph business, as well as a letter describing
the deleterious effects of x-rays on Edison's laboratory assistant, Clarence
Dally. Among the items relating to family and personal matters are several
letters concerning the sale of the house at Menlo Park owned by Edison’s
oldest daughter, Marion Edison Oeser; a letter from Edison to the town council
of West Orange protesting the granting of a liquor license; and a list by Edison
of his five "most important inventions."
The label on the front cover contains the following notation: "T.A. Edison
- Letter Book, -from- January 8 -1 903- to -October 22- 1 903." There is a label
on the spine with similar information. The book contains 498 numbered pages
and an index. Approximately 25 percent of the book has been selected
1
Jan. 8, 1903.
My Bear Dr. Alexander: -
Please accept ray thanks for the courtesy you have extended
me; 1 trust you will accept with my compliments the' enclosed cer¬
tificate for twenty five shares of the Edison Portland Cemerr Co.'s
Stock.
Yours truly,
V. 3'. Cowing, Son, ,
Edison Laboratory,
•fes't Orange, M. J.
Loju* Sirs
A;3 X « : 3 1 Ac t to be av/ny bo muoh during the next fev.r months
.[ regreu that I win compelled to dispense with your services after
January 17, 1903,
Yours truly,
12, 1903.
Alex. Churchward, Esq.,
c/o General Electric Co.,
44 3road St., IT. Y.
Lear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 9t.h inst., I beg to state
that I expect to he here at ny Laboratory all week and and will be
glad to aee you. Yours truly,
,J'iS ii all ready with
"ir-uni J.
1 A 3/03 AwA
id,
• Road ,
West Orange
of the scarcity of coal, Mr. Rdieon has giT.
ut off all electric light current.' furnished '
o kindly make other arrangements for your su
Yours truly,
83
Jan. 26, 1903.
Horria County Machine & Iron Co.,
Dover, IT. J.
Gentlemen:
Tl.e two castings of the four compartment mould have been
received and tried. The second one is of course very much better
than the other. Its use has suggested a change in the form of the
core and we ship you today a new pattern and core box, from which you
may make another caeting. We trust you will make every possible
effort to produce a smooth uore.
Please return pattern and core box with casting, all by
freight, and oblige,
Very truly yours
Edison laboratory.
...
7/orth fit., Mew York.
/oj.r ler.ter of the Rlst , enclosing co.immioatl.on
I'tollwerck.
seerfls to me that the proposed form of agreement , a copy of
Hide r stand from Mr, Gilmore has already been moiled to you
•ded to Mr. Gtollwerck, covers everything Which we agreed upon
.me of your last visit here. 1 think, therefore, it would he
''"aiT •'rr* "toUwerck's reply to same, when X .should he glad to
ppointwr.t for you to come out here to see me and discuss
ct further.
Yours very truly,
‘ .. CL Stiuwf _ ,
Jan. 28, 1903.
E. Kramer, Eaq. ,
P. 0. Box 311,
Metuchen, JT. J.
% Dear Kramer:
Your favor of the 26th inat. in regard to house at Menlo
Park came duly to hand and in reply I heg to state that we have
nothing to do with the house. I would advise you to write to Mr.
Edison's daughter in regard to same. Her address if Mrs. Marion
E. Oeser, Hagenan, Elsass, Germany. If you wish you can write to
her in German as she thoroughly understands the language .
remain,
Trusting you are having success with your "business, I
Yours truly,
2/5/03/rAE/r,
5;
y«'b. 3, 1903.
national Phonograph Co. ,
Oranee, IT. J.
Bear Sira:
I have your letter of the 2nd, orifcodyiiyj new propo sit ion
to take the place of the acreojcant heretofore Bade with your cojap&ny
under date of Juno 13th, 1896. The now proposition ie quite acceptable
to ne and i« hereby accepted, to take place aa of Karch let, 1903.
Yours very truly,
58
other part lea for this same district, if i PO desire. I win
agree, however, in case I should make an arrangement with other
parties for this district, that they are to pay the same royalty per
cubic yars as hereinafter mentioned.
3rd. A further. consideration for the use of the machinery,
and my services in designing the plant , and the right to call on
me for advice anytime during ten years from date of contract , is
that a royalty of two cents per cubic yard is to be paid me on all
material crushed and shipped. Such royalty to be paid quarterly.
4th. It is to be further agreed that if the capital stock
is increased at any time to provide for extensions or any other
purpose, I am to have the same proportion of any additional Common
stock, that may be issued as that I am tp get under this agreement.
Sth. I agree to give you an option for six months from
this date on this proposition to enable you to promote the Company,
as aforesaid. In event Company is formed, a regular contract to be
drawn, putting the preceding in legal form.
Yours very truly,
Feb. 18, 1903.
59
•Capt. P. h. Pollen,
New York City,
New York.
Dear Sir:
Prom what I learn from your conversation with our Mr.
Mallory, I infer that there is a misunderstanding on the part of
some of the Directors of the Dunderland Co. about Briquetting. If
they will look up the original- estimate of the cost of production
they will find that there was an allowance made for Briquetting by
the old method used at the Iron mine in New Jersey of about sixty
cents per ton. The present experiments are made to improve the bri¬
quetting process by not only diminishing the investment but to cheapen
the product.
The new process so far gives a very much better product
and is certain to be very much cheaper, making a very great annual
saving to the company over the cost as originally estimated by the
other method. It would be foolish not to take advantage of experi¬
ence and bring everything up to date. We have worked the new prooeBB
and in my opinion it will be all right in every respect, but we
must perfect it by finding out by actual experiments on full sized
furnaces what is necessary to get a perfect unit. It will be neces¬
sary to build another furnace to remedy the effects of heat expan¬
sion of the long length of the brick work on furnace already built.
60
#2 F. H. P.
'Phis expansion is the only thine; that I oan Bee that standp'in the
way of producing the final working drawings for all the j^urnaoes
at Mo. As for the phosphorous added to the hriquett^r by the use of
Clay and Feldspar, our tests here of the phosihoroyB content in the
clays around Mo and the Feldspar also from vicSntay of Mo will add
.0014 of phosphorous to the ore. If for instance the ore contained
.024 of phosphorous before briquetting, the briquettes would 'contain
.0254. If there are lower phosphorous clays (.060) to be found around
Mo, then even this will be lowered. While it is difficult to say
what our experiments on building and changing furnaces, until we
gat one satisfactory, will cost I think the company should allow
about $15,000 more which sum as far as I oan see should be ample.
Yours very truly, ~y
. . March 9, 1903.
Alex. Churchward, Esq. ,
c/o General Electric Co.,
44 Broad St. , JsT. Y.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 27th ult., I beg to state
that I think you better go ahead and arrange to substitute ,your
motor for the Westinghouse in Biok's carriage. I have told Hershmann
to follow your advice and stick to one motor and plain diffrential.
There is very little strain on the jack shaft so the plain old fash¬
ioned diffrential could be used. I saw a very small simple affair
on a gasolene engine of an auto. Please help Hersohmann all you
can to get the wagon simple and convenient to get at all parts.
In regard D, E. & TV. , will go into this with you on my
(turn.
Yours truly,
Arthur Herschmann, Esq.,
Adaras Express Co.,
61 Broadway, IT. Y.
Dear Sirs
In reply to your favor of the 24th ult., I Beg to state
that I think you Better follow Churchwards advice and use single
motor. He tells me there is som^ivery good compensating gears in
the market. Book them all up and adopt the heat one. What is the
matter with the one on the Mors maohine, that works all right. Th
is very little strain on it as we have it, in fact nothing to Be
Yours truly,
Mar oh 10, 1903.
0. B. mi„u *n0l°" yOU 1,srewtli *>«" 1 *«.
«*, ft „o ” 2s"1 y™ .t Menl0 PirJc. ao
w. - th* — * 1 «- *• «* « ^ „
you ,rlU“ "‘.tins that a.™ tt» ago
you wished to sell the house 'fcfit at present m* * ^
you wished to dispose it or not 71
and told ' 1 haTe Siven him your address
and told him to write to you direct.
Yours truly,
r° Mrs. Marion E. Oeser
8$*
®diaon,
Mantoo , pare Cotmt.y,
North Carolina,
Your Xft^r.BT to Mr. Mallory asking for information in
t/O a dynamo to be rtta by a 1 H. P. gasolene engine has
w** referred to me • "
A 1 H. p. engine will run l/Z to 3/4 H.P. dynamo depending
^ 4h% ^fficienoy of the dynamo which will run from 7 to 10—16
j^ower lamps . As you probably could not get a machine of 3/4
j. yan would haV* to choose between a l/2 and a 1 H.P,. raachiba .
oostr of a dynan° would he from $35,00 to $60.00 depending
>hl-j0h 8l55ft you choose and upon the speed of the dynamo, the
}^gf»er tfOieed mabhitf®8 being lighter and cheaper.
Por a i8uwh 8 C.P. lamps would probably be more satls-
tV****y thSn 16 You coulrt run twice as many 6 C.P. as you
*ou** ** C*T‘
The "that an ignition dynamo would give aB a motor,
tyO ™ch t0o flmall to start a gas engine even if the current
w vr******1' to run it.
Very truly yours.
’haa dust returned from a hurried trip to Florida.
3. Elliot'; , Esq.,
Riverside, Conn.
I beg to advise you that the letter which you sent me
some time ago in regard to ray daughters house at Menlo Park, N. J.
was immediately forwarded to her. and today I received the following
cable in reply. "Accept Elliott's offer Menlo house. Signed. Mar ion"
the ^°use at the prioe mentioned in your
letter($l,000.) vhich you mailed to me. ■
Yours truly,
ed April 6th, 1903, due August 6th,
A. TSdieon. I' will be able to sen
month.
plans definitely, will you kindly
Directors will make further advances
that there a limit to the amount I
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•0urs 0f the 8th to the Kdl.cn Portland Cement
I', about note due on -April 22nd. has been referred to me.
It will be a great convenience to me if you would permit
° gradually reduce their notes for the reason that at present
lie man who Is putting up practically all the money to rebuild
*1 1)1,015 • wh'-®h l5U™eA on March 2nd. V/e will be unable to
s until the coal plant Is rebuilt.
Philip Seubel, Esq.,
c/o S. Bergmann,
Berlin, Germany.
In answer to yours of March 28th in regard to Prof. Poerster.
lirst. It is Best to use pure potash as free of acid radicals as •
possible , not that considerable amounts of the radicals prevent the
battery from giving its output but upon the theoretical assumption
that in time these radicals might oause a slow action upon the
metallic parts. We know that if there is a very large quantity of rad¬
icals present that there is a slight action but this is only observed
when the radicals bear a certain relation to the Potash. Cyanides,
however, diminish the output of the Nickel, and sulphur effects the out¬
put of the iron.
Second. The iron electrode is composed of pure Perric Oxide
reduced to raetallio iron and mixed with fifteen per cent of Oxide of
Mercury and twenty per cent of Graphite. The object of the Mercury is
to insure better contact between the iron particles.
jfayth and Pifth. Dick has a supply of small test cells from which
The professor can use the potash by alcohol process after
he has purified it from Carbonates with Barium hydrate.
Yours truly,
/
April 14, 1903.
\y
S. H. Pollen, Esq. , Sec.,
Dunderland Iron Ore Co.,
London, Eng.
Bear Sir:
In reply to .your favor of March 2flth I beg to state that
I find that the Chemist here is not oompetent to maice a proper
phosphorous determination and that he has mislead Ballentine, whit
is the reason of high phosphorous in Briquettes. You need have n«
apprehension about the phosphorous in the clays of Dunderland. I
find that a few cents worth of acid in the wash water^must be usee
and removes praotically all the phosphorous.
Yours truly,
128
In reply to your favor of the 6th inst. , I heg to Btate
that Mr. Edison says you hatter take options on the extensions of
the Blizzard at the price you mention.
^ Yours truly,
4
J. M. Segur, Esq.,
501 Washington Aroade,
Detroit, Miah.
Apr. 14, 1903,
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 6th inst., I heg to state
that I am not interested in Mica Mines hut would advise you to
write the General Electr ip Co. who are large users of Mica.
Yours truly,
131
15, 1903.
Hr. P. W. r:. nos, President,
Magnetic Club,
853 Broadway, New York.
Pea.-' Si r-
un ray return from the South I find your letter of April 1st,
sxyendiiig an lflvltp Vion to a complimentary dinner to he given our old
friund <~'i. 0?ovry-oa Saturday evening April 18th at the Hotel
■hr ' oin.'> .
Just at this tl*w> it 1b very inconvenient for me to get away, as
at; y.reasilt t f3,i SO tied Up at Stewart svilie that I can give nothing
else ay nl'Lori. I shall do my best, however, to be with you Sat¬
urday night, but it is going to be very doubtful. Say to the boys for
me, however, that although 1 may not be with them in body, I am with
their. neartlly in spirit and 1 wish them art enjoyable evening.
Please oonvdy to your honored guest my very best regards, and
believe me,
Yours very truly,
?. S. This letter is written from a telephonic message from Mr..
Pdison from Stewart svilie .
:a*ii:3 ’iae(I
V
April 20, 1903.
Mr. T. Jo Parker,
Secretary General Committee,
Society of Chemioal Industry,
28 Broad St,, New York.
Bear Sir:
I duly received your letter of March 10th, hut I have "been
away South and neoessarily my mail hao been neglected, and since my
return 1 have "been so extremely busy that your communication has only
just been brought to my attention.
I accept the position on the General Committee tendered me, but
I am very much afraid that I shall be unable to serve personally, in¬
asmuch as the various interests with which I am connected will employ
all of my time, and I am away in different parts of the State continu¬
ously.
I enclose herewith my check for §50.00, beinc my contribution to
help defray expenses.
Apr. 22, 1903.
!. Re iff, Esq,. ,
20 Rrottd St.,
Hew York.
i/
to reply to your favor of the 18th Inst., I beg to state
b the explosion at the mill keeps me very busy hut I will see
any Monday at the Laboratory which is the only day that I am
e and any other day at the cement works you wish to come up.
Yours truly.
Standard Construction Corporation, Ltd.,
Apr. 22,
1903.
London, England.
Dear Sirs:
In reply to your favor of the 2nd inst., I beg to state
that the £700 mentioned in your favor of the 22nd of December cami
safely to hand. I can not see why you did not receive the acknowl¬
edgement of this draft as it was sent you a long time ago.
Yours truly,
]
l beg to enclose you herev/lu.. duplicate agreement.-, h
tween V. H. Shelmerdine and Mr. Thomas A. Edison. Will you
kindly have same executed on page 2 "by W. H. Shelmerdine, \7. S
.Pilling and T. I. Crane and return one to me and X will obtain
, , „ , for Mr., Shelmerdine
check from Mr. Edison and forward it to you/at the earliest po
ble moment .
ajear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 6th inst., I beg to state
that Hr. "Edison, told Hr. Hall o ry that he wanted Condon to take
charge of the trenching, etc. "but as the oement company are very
"busy at present they can not let him go.
Regarding the diamond drill. Hr. Edison wrote Mr. Gayley
and told him that he was not quite ready for the drill and ae soon
as he was he would notify him to ship it.
In regard to the "book which you wished us to order, I beg
to state that on the receipt of your letter the book was immediately
ordered from 3. Van No strand & Co. who wrote and stated that they
would have to import same and it would be atleast 3 or 4 weeks
before they would be able to obtain it. I enclose their letter to
verify my statement which kindly return. I also enclose you here¬
with cheok for §2,000 as per your letter to Mr. Mallory dated April
23, 1903.
Your 3 truly,
153
I beg to advise you that X have you shipped you this day'
via United Sates ScpresB one roll of "blue prints received from Mr.
Simple in. These are the blue prints mentioned in Simpkins letter
which X remailed to you to day and for which find enclosed bill of
lading. Yours truly,
May 2, 1903.
Bobt. 74. Tfeyant, Bsq. ,
Stony Point, 7-1. Y.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 20th ult., I beg to state
that I would like very mud: to have you make me an offer on the
property mentioned. Yours truly,
4, 1903.
v
Mutual Life Insurance Go. of Hew York,
Broadway & Cedar Steet,
Hew York.
Bear Sirs*
I desire to pay off the mortgage held hy your company
my IaV. ratory situated in West Orange, IT. .T. amounting to
Will you kindly let me know how much the Interest will amount t
to Friday night May 8, 1903 so I can get a certified check for
principal and inter.; - i and if you will have the discharge paper
in to take it
Bear Sirs:
I "beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 2nd
inst. enclosing agreement "between "W. H. Shelmerdine and Thomas A.
Edison dated Hay 1, 1903 and enclose you herewith Mr. Edison's check
for $9691.55 in payment for same. Kindly have Mr. Shelm»rdine ac¬
knowledge receipt, and oblige,
Yours truly,
~j, Edison. Esq., /
■."rin-eo, Roanoke Inland, „<
Horth Carolina.
su* Sir:
As per instructions from your father 1 "beg to return you
Yop-3 truly,
rewith a number? of "bills.
i : ndon, England.
,/b I
I beg to advise yon tkr,-' ' r, Edison received a draft from
'♦ P, Morgan & Co. for $26,000, the ixuae being on account from Kr.
. F.„ Harjes of Paris.
Yo.ure truly,
John H. Mood, Py_., s
39 Cortlandt St.,
New York.
Dear Sir:
1 Deg to enclose you herewith, a ©heck for 28 cent a. Can
you tell me What this 1* for as I do not ^-Aw anything about it?
Yours truly ,
May 6, 1903.
3. Pick, Esq,* |
c/o hr own, Shipley * Co.
London, England.
pf p .u- favor ci th* 26th ult .. I heg to enolose you
he.^wl • l ' r of Attorney signed hy Mr. Edison for 2476 fully paid
ordinary shares of^he Xhmaerland Iron Ore Co. Ltd. which are to he
forwarded to /ms hy Mr. Hall.
I return you herewith part of a letter addressed to you
under date of the 17th of April. Mr. Edison has. read this pari
over and asked ree where the other part was and I told him that this
was all that oame in the envelope.
Yours truly.
May 6, 1903,
.Mutual Jiff's 'itsuranoe Co.,
Broadway & :edar St.,
Hew York.
Bear Sira:
Since writing you on the 4th inst. in regard to the
Mortgage on jny laboratory in Ye at Orange, H. .T. I heg to atate that
Some thing unexpected has turned up and I desire to let the mortgage
run along and not take it up at present. I anoloBB you herewith my
oheok for £600, the same being in payment for six months interest
on same. You^S truly,
Kay 6, 1903.
s- Pilling,
Girard Bldg.,
Philadelphia, Pa,
Dear Sir:
I teg to anoloB*. you herewith the envelope in which you
hailed a letter to Mr. Mlsoh dated April 30, 1903. You will notice
thdt tkla antelope was held at Philadelphia for postage and is sent
tp you as per request of 7*-. Mallory.
Yours truly,
May 6, 1903.
Kr s. Dizaie IS. ’WaUSWOrth,
462 Buclid Ave .,
JCSLayeland, 0.
Dear Madam:
I "beg to ehalose you herewith check for §100, also a note
made out for'4r*> years for like amount at 6^ interest. Kindly sign
the enclosed not* knd return to me, and oblige,,
tf&Lititt**. *x. toure ferulv. -
John y. Miller, Esq.,
‘Sudbury, Ont.,
Canada.
bear 8tr;
„„„ ~0'”' r“"r " Sn4 ln,t- to Mr. Edison, ro-
J! '"I 5“'" <’“l”S t0 ”'-It f°r y°" 14 «««. duly
. 'V id‘“°n °Snt ” * l8tter "« * *»««. to h„.
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*“ ,„K and ho doss oars to lot hta eo.
„ . f Ut m *m u «»’-• f wr on, .1,0 yon „,ula
Ke to o®186 «®.*n place of this man?
Yours truly,
ft*'* /<>^t «<)
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«r to pr.te.t i„ th. strong.., po.eiti. ,™n.r wl„„ ^ eriuit.
" ' ■ “ 11"m° 60 ““ »—• «* liquor ftt Highland PMk.
In «n..n with Other owners of property or th. -lount.in
14. , should consider ,h. oo^li„». of your hmrtu, ^
T‘ riW'“ ** * dir"‘ tK« llf.!..P»ln.e. and property
1 th; 'Those. Hone 8 are in this looality.
Ih. disorderly and vl,i„„, fr„ ai p„t, „ ^
»o«, here ih larg. number. if intonating leverage. were .old
>t Highland Part and th, grating of a lloene, ln „„ „0„,e „
^Gargad as neoe8sary to our own citizens.
The Wdiate result of licensing Highland Park would he
to lnju**e the reputation of the town, lower the value of property
and drive away the principal taxpayers, upon whom its prosperity
he eaid lately to depend.
Respectfully yours,
V
May 18, 1903.
Sidney C. Ormsby, Esq. ,
150 ’Tassau St.,
Hew York.
Hear Sir:
As per your, favor of the 14th inst. , I beg to advise y
taat I have this day returned the papers to you hy Express, sigm
'by Mr. Edison and myself.
In 7 Sr. Edison's paper you will notice that he has made
several small corrections and in ray paper I beg to call your att<
tion to the following which I have marked in ' r.V .
Answer Q#2
Answer Q#126
Question #135
Answer Q#205
H. 77. Question #346.
Yours truly,
rJM
,1903.
' /
K. E. Dick, Esq., .
Eitzalan House, Arundel St., k'"“jS j
London, V/. C., England, ~y'
Dear Mr. Dick:
As per request of ”tr. Edison, I Leg to return you herewith
temporary receipt, also allotment for 6833 shares of stock in the
Edison Ore Hilling Syndicate, Ltd. The renouncement paper has keen
mailed to Hr. Harjes direct as per your request. Trusting you are
in good health, X remain,
Yours very tsuly,
May 20,1903.
John Henry Harjes, EBq. ,
31 Boulevard Hausmann,
Paris, Erance.
Saar Sir:
As „cr instructions from Hr. H. E. Mo*. I toe to enclose
3-u Mre„lth a renouncement for 1000 Sh.ro. of .too* of th. Edison Or
'MiUing syndicate, ltd. executed W Hr. Edison. Kindly aohncl.de.
receipt of same, and oblige,
Yours truly,
John V„ Miller, Esq.,
Sudbury, Ont.,
Canada.
Dear Sir:
May 20,1903.
In reply to your favor of the 18th inst., I b®g*o state
that I have looked in the cupboard in the library for the keys which
you mention but I have been unable to find any traoe of any.
In regard to the book, I beg to state that it came safely
to hand and waB turned over to Mr. Rafn and he informed me that he
was going to write you regarding same. 1 can not find out from him
today, as I understand he has gone away. As soon as he returns I
will speak to him about it.
Yours truly,
james Symington, Esq. ,
Port Huron, Mich..
May 20, 1903.
Dear Sir:
As per instructions from Mr. Edison, X "beg to enclose you
herewith, check for $15.00. Kindly acknowledge receipt of same,
and oblige, 'Yours truly,
Howard W. Hayes, Esq.,
Prudential Bldg.,
Newark, N. J.
Dear Sir:
May 21, 1903.
I teg to enclose you herewith "Secretary's Oath" for the
Hew Jersey Patent Company, duly executed.
YoOrs truly-.. IH
THOMAS a\/E D I S 0 N .
Orange, N. J. May 18, 1903.
Charles F. Scott Bs*.
President An Institute Elec Engs
H Y City.
Dear Mr . Scott :
I am delighted to note the sequel of the Institute
Library Dinner v/liich I had the pleasure of attending last
February, and am heartily glad to be able to congratulate you
on the generous gift of Mr. Carnegie of One million dollars to
the Institute and its sister Societies. I have the greater
pleasure, in this benefaction to the Institute. because it comes
from one of ourselves, who began at the Key and has shown himself
so worthy of the great wealth that has come to him since he was
a humble telegrapher .
I am convinced that all the Societies concerned will
feel it their duty to unite in disposing of this gift so as to
render It of the utmost value and profit to the professions they
represent and to the arts & sciences in general.
Faithfully yours.
Thomas A. Edison.
Hay 27,1903.
To whom It may concern;
The hearer, George Heathrington has been employed a
Chemist and Experimenter in this Laboratory for three years.
iB laid off for'laok of work.
Yours truly.
Copy of letter sent to Jir. Dick
'Mjk..
H. 1., May 27, 1903.
I send you copy of a letter which I received from London.
You will see the newspaper notideS are absurd, also notice Jaw
price they offer nickel at. I think that there is five cents duty
here, hut for our European business these low prices are good; The
price I am paying Trust now is 45 cents, formerly 60 cents. You
better see these parties and get in touch with them for future use.
If you could get them to sell us small lots, say 5 or 10 tons until
vould be a good club over the
Trust here. Miller is now drilling one of our Sudbury propositions,
he sunk one hole shovel in swamp and struck right on top of a
mine. The solid We -goes about two per cent. The area is enormous
from the needle and X have great expectations. Our delay here has
been the trouble with the machine for filling the iron cups. It
is working O.K. now and both machines are running daily and we are
off at last manufacturing. The new cells will show about 170 ampere
on the long charge. The discharge rate is immense.
Pinzis high discharge was not so goo* on aooount of the
pockets being nearly closed up (ie.) the holes. I cabled you today
in re the Studebacker run of 2400 miles. The battery was the la
Plato made by machinery. Prom the time they went in until the end
tiiey were never touched or cleaned and they are better than at
first, and every cell is exactly the same. 'They have had some
fearful jolts, so much so that the wagon is no longer safe to j
and we are overhauling it.
Took my family to Morristown the Wthjyr Sunday with Baker
and Waverly, 13 plate cells. 42 miles, tremendous hills at Summit;
Baker got back with average 1.18 volts still on battery.
The • remarkable thing about the 28 plate cells is the
discharge rate and the fact that in a five hour discharge with 3
cells, the cell ended at .75 volts within one minute of each other
This shows the perfection of the new filling machines.
Edison.
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_ . May 28. 1903.
Federal Trust Co.,
747 Broad St.,
Newark,. JT. J.
Dear Sirs:
I 1=00 to enolose you hero.Uh draft for 019 - 12,
iiao* pro°e"as ^ ”rodi* “<« » « to l „oimt
yo . allow per pound, and oblige,
Yours truly.
Hay Stt, 1903.
i
Sonj . Kirk, Baq.,
Sidney, M. Y.
Dear Sir:
In reply to yodr faVOi df the 88th last., I "beg. to state
•that I do not know of an apparatus edP the- kiwi you mention.
Youra truly.
'J. G. Beiff, Esq.,
20 Broad St.,
Hew York.
Bear sir:
May 28,1903.
In reply to your faVOr Of the 25th Wilt., i beg to state
that I never worked -on Tellurium ores. Why don’ t you go ahead with
your copper. HP* Chapman here at the laboratory will have hie
machine finished in a few days and 1 would aayiae you to o<jjne over
and sao him about making a test.
Yowrf truly,
v2i#
Mrs> jiarion E. Oeser,
t/a^enan, J3l8aes,
Oeraany.
De^ jfrs. Oeaar;
I beg to advise you that Mr. G. B. Elliott called on
me in regard t0 purchasing the hous^ at Henlo Park Wednesday last
and ),a says -that yie has been so very busy in fitting up a new fac¬
tory *ni ch he has purchased there that it was impossible to olose
.... soon
the tr.an0aotion for the purchase of the house. Just as/the search
ifl flfJlalied he HU dive me a check for the property and 1 will
inta9(jjl»t03.y £on»ard. it to you.
He tell <3 me there is no doubt in the world but what he
wUl («ke the house, provided the title of the property is all clear,
f ajn <3Wite s«re tt is. It may take two or three weeks before
he has tHe saaroh made but just as soon as it is finished he promi¬
ses gl^e me the money.
Yours truly,
May 27, 1903,
MOTIVED from George P. Hetherington the following:
1 Platinum Pish Weighing
29.4526 Grammes
1 Platinum Crucible & Lid »
56.9987 "
1 " » „ „
23.6951 "
1 " '• .. n
16.0744
8 " Electrodes)
Property of #1311 )
30.8875 "
2 Platinum Cones » »
6.8612
1 Small agate mortar and pestle
1 large " " » „
■Thorium Chloride
" Bromide
1 Platinum Stirring Rod
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Jir. \V. A. I,. Laughton, Manager,
Employers' Liability Aesurance Corporatibi
Philadelphia, Pa.
Youra of the 29th ultimo advioing that you had Bent our
General Office a check in full for settlement of the eight deaths
and six injury cases, is noted.
Your handling of these cases on a broad gauge basis
and without any quibbling, is much appreciated by us.
Yours very truly, m
CX.
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252
V. reply to your favor of the 23rd inn*..* | bet to state
w- is ny Chief Draughtsman and hao lid, , #.i • }. me r.ar.y years
ust him for any Reasonable amount of .isenay.
Tours truly,
June 25, 1903.
. Kennelly , Esq.,
Betz Bldg. ,
Philadelphia, Pa.
I beg to enclose you herewith le tter from Will •* an 5. ?*o
of Perth, Ont . , Canada. Will you hindly give same the atten-
i thirds necessary, and oblige,
Yours truly,
253
-Joseph
1, Efcj..,
Secretary .Citizens League,
V/" »+. Orange, N. S'*
Lear Sir:
I "be to i - sloae you herewith a oirou? -> by me
from Adolph Roe der. f hi ve made no reply to ti.ia oir.n-.lar ae I
suppose It will be one of the subjects taken up by our league.
Youtb truly, , ~
June 26, 1903.
Messrs. Steinway & Sons,
109 E. 14th St.,
New York.
pear Sirs:
I beg to enclose you herewith my check for $1100.00, the
same being in payment for Piano No. 106936 to be delivered to my
house in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. 7. and to be put up in good
order. Kindly send' me receipted bill for. same, and oblige,
Yours truly,
V June 29, 1903.
JohK M. lansden Jr., Man.,
1418 Pirst Ave.,
Birmingham, Ala.
My dear lansden:
I feel it my duty to inform you that Hill ie no longer
employed By the Storage Battery Company or myself and that he was
revested to resign last month which he did. The reason for the
re qoe st was that he was Bringing our name into disrepute By making
all kinds of statements and Borrowing money from everybody he pos¬
sibly could. He is so discredited that I do not Believe he will Be
able to raise any money for you and may get you in difficulties,
so you should Be on your guard about committing yourself By contract
I am very sorry that Hill is carrying on this way as he is
a very agreeable man. Please consider this letter striotlyoonfi-
tential. Hill gave me your letters and 1 infsr that yh^ieed money
whioh he keeps promising to raise But does not do so.
If you get pinched Badly come and see me and perhaps I
TouTs truly truly,
■ ' 'W
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H. E. Pick, T53q.,
o/o Edison Ore Milling Syndicate, ltd., '
load on, England.
Pear sir:
I oeg to confirm following cable sent you this day: "Dick
Paris. Start thirty amperes increasing finally to hundred fifty. 0a
riage goes Thursday steamer. Aultiuan wagon two ten and quarter
made our road fifty miles, muddy, sixty six cells. Edison.
Yours truly,
The Smith lyriphone Co . ,
i kindly nend me a circular covering your Lyri-
phdne, also quote prici
l the device arranged to operate with
: power and separate price on one \
I am thinking of purchasing
Will this entitle me to the
Yours very truly,
258
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-'r o Charles L. Edgar, President,'
Edison Electric Illuminating Co.,
My dear Sir: —
Boston, Mass.
7A/03A’Si 0.
Mr. Edison wishes me to thank you for. yours of the 30th
ultimo enclosing copies of the Storage Battery contracts. He also
requests the following Information: '57. , ^
"Mr. Davis: "1 understand the average charge for Phila¬
delphia Storage Batters'- is approximately $100. per Kilowatt. "
President Pergussn: "That is nearly right."
This is blurred to me , is It $100. for a battery that
will give 1 Kilowatt hour or a battery that gives l kilowatt dis¬
charge for 5 hours or more or what. I cannot make out the cost of
a battery having a total capacity of one Kilowatt hour and the con¬
tracts only confuse me further, I see nd where in the contract
that the capacity is to remain the same during any given period.
There must be times before renewals are put in that the capacity is
less.
Another thing; If they guarantee to maintain yoUr battery
for si* percent, what difference does it make to you what the prioA
- r rej**-"*"1 nawts, ip 4* -ths^; .yott expected to get it for less
259
July 2, 1903.
Smith lyraphone Co.,
15 W. Pratt St.,,
Baltimore, ?!d.
Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 30th ult. came duly to hand and in reply
please ah ip me at the earliest possible moment one outfit adresaed
to Thomas A. Edison, Edison Laboratory, Orange, IT. j. with motor to
propel machine in box to go under piano. Any style case or wood
will do that car. he shipped quickly. Kindly render bill with best
discount.
I will be willing to give whatever assistance I can as to
installation of motor so to suppress sound. I understand that the
rolls used by the Pianola people can be used on your maohine.
Yours truly,
265
July 3, 1903.
M'Uiu !£« Pox, 38(Bq.r
, c/o The. Harvey United Steel Go., Ltd.,
28 Victoria St., Westminster, S.W.,
Tiondon, England;
»-ar Hr. ?c.x:
I am in receipt of your esteemed favor of June 8th. with,
•enclosures as mentioned, for all of whidh please accept m thanks.
. What Hr. 'Unite advised you relativ* to the power of attorney is
ccrrec-t . local ooinpsniee organized by Mppincott and others a
(Treat many years ago, as well as the old Barth American Phonograph Co. ,
nhieh v.-aH considered the parent company, have practically oeased to
exist for a number of years. The reason has, of course, been. that
they have '.-.eon absolutely inactive: they would do nothing towards pushing
thi business smd as * consequence the greater portion of thorn, and
principally the Eorth American Co., drifted into the hands of a Receiver
and i'm »?.iu compare' was wound up. As you are doubtless aware, I had
a 1*7 -1* aiKVnt -f money tied up in the Edison Phonograph ITorke here,
‘•fc-'l i*-s -Ii ; ‘ r r vr-.ies, to whion 1 had not only attached ay
u-'-ir hut ii! h-. -•••*. T pecuniarily interested. The upshot of the
maf er ne. trait v-,vhlo litigation X succeeded in arranging
mtiegts in atwh a wav •. t sale of the apparatus could he handled
oy r ottegany xAiich had been organized by certain of my associates.
i2hey began iou» ime s s something like nine years ago, and after a very hard,
■arifl <53. act- orbing trims they eventually succeeded in bringing the- phon.b-
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so tuat -.’nfi outlook 1h nov/ quit e favorahli
iny to get hack the very large amount of money
thnre® ir the other local companies are concerned,
: '■•v-sz paragraph of your letter, they are of no ub<
?v,t I thank you, nevertheless, for the offer.
.nkinr. I’0’3 for the interest shown, which I can asour<
jreciutsd, and trusting that at some future time I
‘ftsnre of reciprocating the favor, believe me to h«
Yours very truly,
- CL '
CXAe. ta n*>4f*n+***1
that the
Rls-d to learn
automr la and battery pleaee you. If you will follow
ohe ineti uot * ■t.h as to keeping the necessary supply of distill
water in the cells, I fully believe you will have . great de* of
pleasure from the outfit.
In I cm: ‘ If you set near Orange, I ahell lie glad
to have .* ahoun though the Laboratory'S*?^ of ^
Yours very truly, ^
-3£ -
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July 11, 1903.
John M, Landsden, Jr., Usq. ,
418 First Ave.,
Birmingham, Ala.
My dear Land a den:
Your favor of the 8th inst. oame duly to hand and in
reply I Leg to state that you "better deal direct with Mr. Churchward
and get his motors or "buy Westinghouse.
I "beg to enclose you herewith my check for §1,000, note
for like amount and date , which kindly sign and return to me,
and oblige,
Yours truly,
John H. Hopkins, Esq, ,
9 Church St.,
I have an Engineer whe starts for Australia this week ana
will have several days to wait for the steamer at San Erancisoo.
If you will describe the position of the Congress Mine and how to
reach it, he will go there and look at the property.
Hon. Henry I. Budd,
Commissioner of Eublio Roads,
I am very much interested in the good roads of the State
of }Tew Jersey and would very much like to have you send me your
annuai report , containing map showing where the macamized roads Are
located. Thanking you in advance for same, I remain,-
Yours
July 16, 1903.
H. S. Boulton, Esq., Mgr.
(For Mr. Mason,)
Edison Portland Cement Co.,
Stewart sville, N. .T.
Dear Sir:
Want to oaUL your attention to the fact that the new
■bearings we are making have high speed shafts like the motors and
that oil. will not travel across a high speed shaft, being wiped
off by shaft before it gets to the other end, which is not the case
with a slow speed shaft on all the^bearings. You remember we drilled
a hole through the top of bearing on motors leading to the center
of cap and the end of this hole was at the little dam at chain,
which backed the oil up and caused it to be forced through the hole
to the center. Take the matter up as regards dam and hole with Jayne
and decide if you should not drill them at Works or. here. Answer.
Yours truly,
4„. July 16, 1903.
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YT» X. Edison, Esq.., ■ f / /
Koval F.oland, 59th St., ' f
Hew York.
Dear Sir:
Your father instructed me to write you in regard to your
letter of the 15th inst. and your telegram of today, stating that
,e ;vrv.l<l loan you the $200 and for which I enclose oheck, also note
i,r six months which kindly sign and return.
He does not want you t6 uBfe the word "Edison." on your
advertisements, as the battery will he used in automobiles and the
autonobile people might draw wrong conclusions. He has already pur¬
chased a gasolene touring car.
He says you better look out and not spend too rauoh money,
as you will find that you are not Going to succeed so nicely as you
imagine. Only two automobile companies have so far cleared expense
and there has been millions expended.
Yaws truly, ^
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•‘■'S' I-. Edga r, President,
Kdison Electric Illuminating Co.
70 State Street, Boston, 3* ase.
On account, of Construction, I am sure the future auto-
v.ohile v;i ,1 he around 40 to 60 volts for charging and if you v.ant
to he right on the future , you will have to solve the problem of
not losing current by Resistance. Of course, the time v*en the
current for automobile, vill he a big factor, is three or four years
distant.
"yours very truly,
f 1 -
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8/12/03ASM /L
Messrs. Colgate & Co.,
53 John Street,
Mew York.
Dear Sirs:--
Replying to yours of the 10th inst. , I teg to state,
that I desired a list so he to ,be able to make selections for some
experimental work I have in hand, and 1 am perfectly willing to
puroti'ase through local Druggists, hut before doing so .wanted & full
list to select from.
Yours very t^uly, -■>
V/illism Simplcin, Esq.,
c/o Standard Construction Corporation, Xtd.,
Eitzalan House, Arundel St. ,
Xondon, "W. c,, England.
Hear Mr .-Simpkins
In reply to your favor of the 5th Inst., 1 beg to state
that the report In the news-papers about Dally losing his am is
■correct. } Hr. Edison claims that the X Ray affected his eyes that he
had to wear glasses but they appear to be all right at the present
tlffis and is feeling as well as when you were here at the Xaboratory.
trusting you are getting along nicely and with best wishes,
I remain. Yours -truly.
Aug. 21, 1903.
290 Cortlandt St.
”r' h"’ded ” l««.r of Aug. 15m regarding
* C°"Plidnt 6y »“» «w atom the Wring at the Samoa
Laboratory and to reply I beg to .tat. that I a. not too. «y thl,
oomplalnt ha. bean ,ado «d aoala Ilk. y.,y t0 ha„ lnfoi._
nation on the subject.
Yours truly, .
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison,
Chautauq.ua, N. Y.
a herewith the bond .which you signed
364
Mrs. Marion 33. Oeser,
Hag e nan, 331sass,
Germany.
Dear Mrs. Oeser:
Aug* 21, 1903.
I Deg to enclose you herewith a draft on Berlin for 4172
is
Marks, whicl/the equivalent of $1,000 i received for the house and
lot at Menlo Park. ICindly acknowledge receipt of same, and oblige,
yours truly,
K. Dibbs, Esq. , AUg- 21> 190S*
Marragansett Pier,
Kiiode Island.
Dear Sir :
that a C ^ t0 'V°Ur fWOr °f ^ 1Rth lnSt- 1 be8 to state
'°“ V/aB mLled f0r your acR0^t on July 9th to 17 Rector
366
"W-1 - Tviodwfej 'isc(. ,
'Fields,
v'/eedon, England.
Dear Sir:
August 21, 1903.
As usual the newspapers got things mixed. Py eyes were
only slightly injured, my assistant, however, had his am taken off
and probably will lose the other, as four fingers have already hein
cut away.
The ore from Afrioa is at the cement Works and I will run
some through at the first opportunity.
Regarding Simpkin, I want to say that up to the present time
X have only approved officially the five foot and three high rolls
for the reaBOn that no other plans have been submitted to me, although
X am supposed to be the designer of the plant. If he is goine ahead
constructing and building the other machinery and buildings without
approval, the company will only learn too late what a sad mistake
hae been wade . X am not hankering after the job of going over a
host of detail drawings to point out defects which I know from ten
years experimenting on the only large scale ever attempted, but I
d' it so the plant Will be a success. If you will ask Mr. ^impkin
Vi_copies, r " my : - .ors, numbering over twenty you will then learn
; v3.? 7. 1 Si-' Sc.: never had any experience in large Crushing-
!.a«?)TS an.: ye fear V is going right ahead without ^submitting all
■ ’■a plans for of itician . hove not had a letter or drawing for
saver:*'- months, possibly his absence accounts for that.
Friend Moulton:
X intended to have written the scheme out lief ore , hut foi
the last four days I have heen in great p&ih from my Btomach, so
much so that I oan not write them out in detail as j wanted to, I
send you the disjointed frame work of the schemes* If you will have
Mason carry them out in full detail including Kiln, Chief steam
dept, and Mine Chemist dept, and typewrite them and afterwards go
over the scheme yourself and lick it in shape, I will come down next
week and we will go into the matter in detail. Arranging the oil
schedule report blanks, eto. is out of my line and you will have to
do that.
Yours,
Va M. 8, Moulton, Esq., Manager,
Ellison Portland Cement Co.,
•Stewartsville, H. J.
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** ■* Weir* ^.President.
Adams Jlxpreaa Co.,
New York.
% dear Weir:
1318 l3attery ia allright, hut there is'nt a single rig on
hig 7iZ\Ti 18 any e°°d‘ 1 83q>e0t the Birrate^ man will have
lisht delivery wagon at Orange in two or three weeks. He is the
«ost practical man I have met so w < ' h°
f 1 investigated your wants
draughts,^ from the cement w.rks, x will design, make and test one
for you myself .
want yo„ t. «*. run „er ana „ien ^
apehd one third your time collecting funny stories.
Yours truly,
388
At«. 3i, 1903.
Howard W„ Kayes, E«i.,
Bewark, N. j.
Dear Sir:
I enclose you herewith original letter from Nathaniel A
2, Villia* St., New York, atton,ey for the Oalisteo Co^,
v*ich you will doubtless wish to retain.
Yours very truly,
Nathaniel a.
Kleberg, EB<i.,
2V William St.,
_ Hew York.
Hear Sirs
Your communication of August 26th, 1803 received t „
Placed same in the hands of attorney Mr Howl 7 *
tlal Building, Hewark * , v Haye8* PrUdea-
against me. ’ * ° wil1 any suit you may bring
Yours of September 3th at hand. I am very much gratified
oy your action on ray matter and I thank you very much. It is the
first, time I have ever asked the assistanoe of our Senator and
would not have bothered you with it, but the case was so manifestly
fraudulent that I was encouraged to do so.
Yours respectfully. -
415
Sep. 10, 1903.
Ewaid Stulpner, Esq.
Port layers,
Florida.
Pear Sir:
«>»<* for $397.15,
“ P’ym"'t Ur tlnaiy ».nd » , receipted Mu
f”” *• *”*°y — and er,Mly oblte.. ““
Yours truly,
416
Sep. 10, 1903.
*»K3, ••aier!
243 7it. Pleasant Ave.,
ITewark, JT. j.
in reply to your favor of the 8th inst., I beg
to .ft. that I .soke ,0 Hr. ml* ln „ sara t0 Mu ^
A' Ed‘”“ •Ir' ;'ou »■* adetaed Be to »rlte to hto
and ask him to pay you what he owed.
I wrote him yesterday and as soon aa j hear frora hlm T
will advise you.
Tourg truly,
418
10, 3.903.
~'7’ 'feadoweroft, 33s q.,
106 Shilton St.,
New York.
Dpar Jfi*. ”eadoworoft:
- to nand and
VI “ “ 1 ». t», ^.3.
K1» »- »• u„,
I*'’"* W “» X — ».« w «Oe t. get Ms
to set tt for me and ae a, s, doe. I „U1 advise yea.
I am getting along Hotly and quit, prosperous and trust
you are doing the aarae.
Youra truly,
424
Sept. 16, 1903.
ff|M Jeanie L. Stillwell,
134 Jfarklan i St.,
Hamilton, Ont., Canada.
Dear Mies Stillwell:
Your letter of the 13th inat. also enclosure for Hr. Edison
oame duly to hand and in reply 1 "beg to State that 1 handed Mr.
Edison his letter and he notified me to send your mother a check
for $25.00 per month until he notifies me to stop sending same.
I enclose you herewith a check for the month of September
for $25.00.
Yours truly,
A
H . Ti , gtS ok , 33s qo ,
London, England.
Sop.
425 "
17, 1903.
My Dear Dick:
It is very difficult to make estimate of costs of factory
and chemical works, "but as near as I can approximate at the present
moment, the pioneer plant without buildings for 300 cells daily will
cos*k about §385,000*00#
I think we shall he able to make the 30 plate 200 ampere
cell here for less than ten dollars, selling now for $15, of course
when we get cheap steel, nickel and hard rubber it will come way do™,
but we are terribly handicapped on steel and rubber. The 125 ampere
cell, 12 nickels and 6 irons, which will be the thing for runabouts
of the Baker type, we shall sell for ten dollars and will probably
cost us seven until we can get stock, etc. at a reasonable price.
Of course now the cells are costing much more, as our output is small
and general expense large.
Gur Iron filling machine is not a success and I have taken
gi!(V ;tl in hand myself and I will solve the problem at the La-
•j ora as I should have done originally and not trust it to a
Kbshr, ^ ha#.ing ,avor troubles at Laboratory and today only
,1011 work, site union want to run it and I am net going to
do so.
426
Tha -ewapaper report of auto run was pure fake. Bee ran a
• rom Atlantic City to Wanaroaker’s. store in Philadelphia, 10
milcio and then went 8 miles more in Philadelphia on the Reg. 21
Wanamaker's Supt. said that no electric had ever done it and
'ie ‘•‘'U'nt believe it could he done. We are putting a battery in
one of TVs delivery wagons.
Pennsylvania R. R. have sent us order for cells for car
lighting. They say car lighting by battery is the thing they want
and the lead battery is a failure, that the characteristics of ours
is just the exact thing wanted and the things missing in all
lead batteries.
Pro thing is due to colloids as Hibbert says. We wash all
cells in 2,1/2 per cent solution of Potash, in which all soaps, etc.
are soluable. Soaps are not soluable to any extent in 20/ solution.
We use hot solution. We have had oaBds of foaming after they were
in an auto. 1st case waB due to man twisting up paper and using it
to ascertain depth of water; second case was cleaning with waste when
filler hole open, fibre getting in solution. TVhen filler fails to
work and too much water put in it gives too little room for dhe
certain amount of frothing which always takes place. We are on to
every defect and all can be cured perfectly. Pine dust on the road
may get in through the gauze, but we have not had any trouble from
frothing,traoeable to this. What Hibbert says about the oxide of
copper, thie is now gone as we have got steel' drop forgings.
Yours truly,
431
to 3o.eIq, ni
iieJ-nJfc rWiw
S^fei
SS^pSEE _ _t
.>4c4i,. z/, /fe> 3
I am the owner of 195 acres of land situated in the Town
of r>i; ony Point, Rockwood County, Hew York State. You have written
mo that you are desirous of cutting hoop poles on this land and pay
me one third of the money you receive for the poles, less $2.00
for loading each oar load shipped. You have also offered to have
the money remitted directly to me by the parties to whom you consign
the poles in Hew York. You have asked that you he given this right
for the next five years. X am willing to do this under the follow¬
ing conditions:
lii case X sell '.he land, all rights to cut hoop poles
vrii.i ooas'i but you arogiven the privilege of selling such hoop
4.0 you .may have cut up to date of . the sale. You are to work
In i ;,di accord with J-ir. Howard So and ell of Xona Island. You will
■ if ' request you ?!-• h. iU to give full information as to the
;„v. ^ Ulit and ■ . . = . v.\..ilcock or some party that X
.;u-i ‘-nate. j. o ia .mdsvstood that y.*,;
p . , . .. , : -:n —lowing the 3nip-
443
Sep. 28, 1903.
Dr. E. E. Roebor,
Editor Electrochemical Industry,
114 liberty St., IT. Y.
Dear Sir:
I would like to get up an article relating to the chemical
reactions of ray battery and correct some erroneous statements now
Toeing published in Eoreign .Tournals, an article which you can publish
in your paper. I of course will pay the usual honoriura. Can you
undertake it?
Yours truly.
450
Oct. 1,-1903.
” irran ivpe, JOsip, , /
IVi iisv illi, 70/ .
•>a r Sir:
I
■I te plying to your favor of the 1-7 th ult., I beg to state
that the firm of Dyer & Dyer, 31 JTaasau f! t Hew York have done my
patent work for the past five years find are reliable people.
Yours truly,
John M. handsden Jr., Esq.,
Birmingham ELeotric & 70*3. Co.,
Birmingham, Ala.
Oot. 1,
1903.
-hat I would lii
:: -rage Battery
1 to your :ravor of the 25t.*i ult., X be^, • o sT.a*.e
j Have yon jhip the machines to the TCdison
Bloomfield, IT. J. and advise me of shipment.
Yours truly j
x bee to enclose you herewith the deed mentioned. in..your
the 5th inst. addressed tol.tr. Edison, which has been ex-
r Mr. Bdison arid Mr. Insull and beg to call your attention
ic+- that the deed .is not dated, and Hr. Elliott thinks it
sent to the County Clerk's Office in Newark to he.ye him
hat he is a Master in Chancery or Notary Public.
I knew that Mr. Insull was ejected here this morning and
reason I held the deed and had him execute same.
10/8/03/toSM/fc
The Pinkerton National Detective Agency,
67 Broadway,
New York.
Dear Sirs:--
Will yon kindly withdraw your man #63, who has been making
the reporte for us for some little time since, as he has given ue
the information v/e desire.
Yours very truly,'
Oct. 12, 1903.
. A. Belief fler, Esq.. ,
Gen. Kg r. Karine Engine & Supply Co.,
In reply to your favor of the 23rd ult. , I heg to state
that the Ed is an Phonograph Tories is amemherof the National Ketal
Trades Association. At present 1 have all the men that I am in need_
of. Thanking you very muoh for your kind favor, I remain,
Oct. 12, 1903.
H. H. Boyesen, Esq.,
Editor Cosmopolitan Magazine,
Irvington-on-Hudson, IT. Y.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 10th mat., I t'l to state
that at present I » all eat of photographs. Yon oan obtain the,
from C. '!. TOiits, Military St., Port Huron, Mioh.
Tours truly,
471-
Sea Pollen and look at copy of letter of thiB date which
I have sent on for filing in the archives of the company, also
letters of May 11 and Majr 18th, 1903. You will notice that the last
drawings sent have "been examined promptly and defects pointed out.
You will notice that Mr. Simpkin is making some terrible mistakes
just as I feared and Which fear was expressed in my letter to you
and this is worrying me greatly. I now Have more fear than ever
that there are many o frier things which he is doing and the drawings
of vhicih he never has sent or intends to send. What I fear is that
he will draw you into a position where it will he impossible to get
have
out. My advice to you and Pollen is that you/every plan and detail
sent me, I will promptly go over them and state the 'defects or
approve the same and promptly return.
The drawings that X approve you will he safe in going ahead
with for frie reason that they will he based upon actual, experience
on a large scale and not two penny affairs. Please do not show
this letter to Simpkins, he is very sensitive to oriticisra and it
wo.uLd only reduce his usefulness to the company and Check hi-s en¬
thusiasm, which we want to cultivate, hut if you do what I say ana
pound him to correct the defects which I point out, so we can get
the drawings final V approved ana ready for contracts, you. will he
4*75
Zyer Rubber Co.,
Andover, brass.
Gentlemen:
Oct. 12, 1903.
I have been using some of your rubber tissue .005 of an
inch thick, purchased from the Excelsior Rubber Co. of Raw York. I
M VerydeBlrous of obtaining some very much thinner for experi¬
mental purposes and it would to a gx^t accomodation if you would,
make me about l/2 pound or even 1/4 pound of the following thick¬
nesses by Brown & Sharpe Micrometer gauge .
One Thousandths
Two Thousandths,
Three Thousandths and
me know,
business.
Four Thousandths*
Perhaps X am asking for something impossible, if so let
If I can get what I am after it will probably lead to
Yours truly,
/
.Oct. 14, 1903.
tiller, Esq.^
iury, Ont.,
As per request of Mr. Edison I tee to enclose you herewith
a tetter from Hr. E. H. Davis with hie enclosures and wish to call
your ■' 'lotion to Hr. Edison’s memorandum on same.
He wished me to ask that you send him a weekly report
of the progress you are making, so that he will at all times he
thoroughly posted as to your doingd. He is very frequently approached
by the stock holders of the company who inquire as to the progress
you are making and it puts him in a very had predicament if he is
not thoroughly posted,
trusting you are in the hast of health, 1 remain.
Yours truly,
TV'
Pres. Ad'-ans Express no.,
New York.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your favor of the 15th inst., I ‘beg to state
that I think the sprocket chain idea is all right, hut the exide
"battery is commercially worthless as you will learn inside of a year
at Buffalo. Before yo.u commit yourself too far as to vehiole, why
not have vehicle oompany run it from New York out to Laboratory •
and I will have my men go over it and report to you. I am anxious
that they sucoeeod in making a good vehiole. I know Budlong the
President and he will not object to our criticisms.
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